Grub problem

[Joe Lewis]

Errors on the root will still occur.  Grub does that.  With BSD, you can 
set the menu option such as :

	root (hd0,2)
	chainloader +1

And it will load the MBR from the BSD partition, which will load the 
loader, which will load the kernel  (the best way, really).

Joe

Robert Storey wrote:

> Use the chainloader command to start FBSD, like this:
> 
>   root (hd0,2,a)
>   chainloader +1
>   boot
> 
> best regards,
> Robert
> 
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 01:42:02 -0300
> "Roy Fokker" <royfokkker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>   Hi, i have installed in my computer FBSD 5.1, and RH9. The thing
>>   is, when i try to get GRUB to boot FBSD, i get the following error
>>   message: root (hd0,2,a) Filesystem type unknown, partition type
>>   0xa5 Then, in the GRUB-shell, i get this from auto-completion.
>>   Partition num: 2, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] BSD
>>   Partition num:'a', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD
>>   Partition num:'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD
>>   Partition num:'d', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD
>>   Partition num:'e', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 BSD
>>   Partition num:'f', Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5 And
>>   i'm guessing that it is because of this, it then grub> kernel
>>   /boot/loader ro root=/dev/hda3 Error 17: Cannot mount selected
>>   partition This is an extract of my grub.conf. I looked for info
>>   about this, and found no other reference. title FreeBSD 5.1 Release
>>   root (hd0,2,a) kernel/boot/loader ro root=/dev/hda3 I will
>>   appreciate any input. Thanks. Alejandro, from BA, Argentina.
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>>References
>>
>>   1. http://g.msn.com/8HMBESAR/2728??PS=
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