BSD booting

[voidmain]

Hmmm, the machine I have FreeBSD installed on here at home is in a VMware session so I couldn't test the mounting procedure but according to "man mount" that should have done it.  And my machines at work are all standalone BSD boxes.  As you can tell, I am not as familiar with the FreeBSD boot loader.  I'll have to do some more research (I hate to do another install although my main machine is configured similar to yours, I could shrink the partition on my second drive and do an install to that partition and see if I can duplicate and solve your issue.  But I don't think it's going to happen tonight, actually probably not at all this weekend as I have a fun packed weekend ahead.  Sorry I couldn't help you.  Maybe some of these "BSD Rules" types on here can help you out.

[Master of Reality]

If i used GRUB there would be no need for the kernel to be on the boot partition. But i already swwitched to LILO. How do i get GRUB back on?

[voidmain]

Doesn't "grub-install /dev/hda" do it?

[Master of Reality]

in GRUB.conf where i have to put in the HD. What would i put down for /dev/hdb3? (in my Reddhat Entry it says (hd0,0) for /dev/hda)

[Calum]

probably (hd1,2) check out this document here

[Master of Reality]

Error22: No such partition
is the error i get when i used (hd1,2).

I should have added 'noverify' and 'chainloader +1' to the BSD entry, and installed the BSD bootloader on /dev/hb3, which i didnt. So i am fucked, unless i can figure out some way to install the FreeBSD bootloader. Maybe I will re-install FreeBSD.

[ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Calum]

the numbers depend on how many SCSI and how many IDE drives you have, since GRUB reads them in a particular order, read the doc...

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by VoidMain:
And you can also mount your BSD partition in Linux if you want to look around at the configs:

# mkdir /mnt/bsd
# mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/bsd -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd

should do it.
[ June 22, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

that doesnt work to mount my OpenBSD partition. Is there any reason why it wouldnt mount properly with taht command?

i used:
    # mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/bsd -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd
and it says:
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad     superblock on /dev/hdb3,
           or too many mounted file systems

[voidmain]

What fstype are you using? And what partition type is it (code in "fdisk")?

[Master of Reality]

i dont know what fstype it is. Its partition type A6 (OpenBSD)

[voidmain]

Try adding a "-r" (read only) and see if that works:

# mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hdb3 /mnt/bsd

And of course make sure the /mnt/bsd directory exists (but I know you know that). That should for sure work with FreeBSD, maybe the new OpenBSD has changed it's file system but it's supposed to work.

[Master of Reality]

that doesnt work for FreeBSD or OpenBSD which are on separate computers and i am trying to access FreeBSD with Slackware and OpenBSD with Redhat.

[voidmain]

Don't know man, you'll have to do some more research. I don't have Linux and *BSD together on the same machine anywhere, except for my desktop where I have it running in a VMware session, but that doesn't help for what you are trying to do.