[Fwd: Bug#543950: grub-pc(GNU/kFreeBSD): wrong root fs type]

[Fwd: Bug#543950: grub-pc(GNU/kFreeBSD): wrong root fs type]

[Felix Zielcke]

Seems like the ufs split breaks seting the root for FreeBSD:

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> Von: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
> Reply-to: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, 543950@bugs.debian.org
> An: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Betreff: Bug#543950: grub-pc(GNU/kFreeBSD): wrong root fs type
> Datum: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:32:28 +0200
> 
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20090826-3
> Severity: important
> User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
> 
> Starting with version 1.96+20090826-3, update-grub uses the wrong fs type
> for the root file system on GNU/kFreeBSD. It uses ufs2 instead of ufs as 
> shown below:
> 
> Version 1.96+20090808-1:
> 	set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> 
> Version 1.96+20090826-3:
> 	set FreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs2:/dev/ad0s1a
> 
> This prevents the system to boot.



-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer

Re: [Fwd: Bug#543950: grub-pc(GNU/kFreeBSD): wrong root fs type]

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Seems like the ufs split breaks seting the root for FreeBSD:

I have a pending rewrite of 10_freebsd.in (there was a thread about this),
which is waiting on a portable "make path relative to its root" method.

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