GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2)

[Unga]

--- On Thu, 11/13/08, Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: GRUB: Filesystem type unknown (ufs2)
> To: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
> Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:24 PM
> Hi all
> 
> I have compiled and installed grub-0.97.tar.gz on FreeBSD
> 7.0 (i386).
> 
> It shows the grub cannot recognize ufs2 file systems.
> 
> grub> root (hd1,0,
>  Possible partitions are:
>    Partition num: 0, [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
> 
> All stage1, stage2 and *_stage1_5 are in /boot/grub/.
> 
> The fstype used for bsdlabel for b is swap and for others
> its 4.2BSD.
> 
> Files systems were created as follows:
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1a
> newfs /dev/ad2s1d
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e
> newfs -U /dev/ad2s1f
> 

Ok, found the problem. Its the newfs. The problem is GRUB cannot recognize ufs2 file systems created by newfs. The GRUB can recognize ufs2 file systems created by sysinstall.

I have even tried "newfs -O 2 -U /dev/ad2s1a", the GRUB still cannot recognize ufs2 file systems.

Now the question is, how to properly create a ufs2 file system manually? Is it by newfs?

Also appreciate if someone could let me know where does it create ufs2 file systems in sysinstall. 

Best regards
Unga