freebsd stable - Mar 2006 - GRUB does not boot FreeBSD after installworld ...

HI,

i have updatete to 6.1-PRERELEASE and after the "installworld" step
GRUB
is unable to boot FreeBSD.

After i did the installworld and rebooted the GRUB error was:

23 : Error while parsing number

I have reinstalled the standard FreeBSD loader for now.

Booting with a GRUB boot-floppy i am able to start either XP or Linux
but trying to start FreeBSD the system just reboots, no errormessage.

I have already tried to install GRUB to MBR again, but no go, the system
just reboots if i try to start FreeBSD.

Any ideas?

> From: Norbert Augenstein <norbert@augenstein.net>
> Subject: GRUB does not boot FreeBSD after installworld ...
>
> HI,
>
> i have updatete to 6.1-PRERELEASE and after the "installworld"
step GRUB
> is unable to boot FreeBSD.
Perhaps it wasn't the installworld step that caused this...
The boot record isn't touched...
> After i did the installworld and rebooted the GRUB error was:
>
> 23 : Error while parsing number
>
> I have reinstalled the standard FreeBSD loader for now.
>
> Booting with a GRUB boot-floppy i am able to start either XP or Linux
> but trying to start FreeBSD the system just reboots, no errormessage.
>
> I have already tried to install GRUB to MBR again, but no go, the system
> just reboots if i try to start FreeBSD.
>
> Any ideas?
How are you installing grub? From floppy?
What are your configuration files?

-- 
Miguel

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:33 +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> Maybe you have an old Grub which doesn't grok UFS2?
No, Grub 0.97 works fine with UFS2

I will cvsup again and rebuild everything, without "CPUTYPE=athlon-xp"
in make.conf
I can remember some bootproblems on my laptop with CPUTYPE?=pentium3m

> It is the case on my machine so i use chainloader to boot freebsd, like
that:
> title           FreeBSD
> root            (hd0,3)
> savedefault
> makeactive
> chainloader     +1
> boot
> 
> Linux i can boot directly:
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-k7
> root            (hd0,5)
> kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-k7 root=/dev/hda6 ro acpi=force
> initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-k7
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> WindowsXP i also chainload.
>