From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JQBPY-0000BG-BK for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:12 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQBPV-0000Aq-Sj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:09 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JQBPU-0000Ac-PP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JQBPU-0000AW-HG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:08 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JQBPU-0005xz-3p for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:08 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JQBPO-00020S-KZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:00:02 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-212-241.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.212.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:00:02 +0000 Received: from wa1ter by adsl-69-234-212-241.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:00:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: walt Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:00:33 -0800 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <20080212111902.GC18073@thorin> <20080212193650.GA3319@thorin> <1203115417.6210.6.camel@k9.localnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-212-241.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008021503) In-Reply-To: <1203115417.6210.6.camel@k9.localnet> Sender: news X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out support for multiboot and freebsd X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:00:10 -0000 walt wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 22:14 +0800, Bean wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:29 PM, walt wrote: >>> I made a small openbsd image to send you, but it works perfectly with >>> your g2ldr so there's no point in sending it :o) I think that problem >>> is not worth your time or mine. >> BTW, how big is your ufs partition ? I have tested FreeBSD 6.3, NetBSD >> 4.0 and OpenBSD 4.2 in a 1G virtual disk, they all seems ok, perhaps >> if the disk is larger, the problem would occur. > > Hah! I think I found the problem. I just noticed that gparted calls my > openbsd/ufs partition an *ext2* filesystem! I seem to recall similar > messages from other fs utility programs about the magic number being > for ext2 even though it's really ufs. This is probably a leftover > magic number from an earlier linux or such. > > I haven't found any way to change just the magic number instead of > deleting the partition and starting over. Do you know of an easy > way to do it? I could use a hex disc editor but I don't know where > the magic number is, exactly. Never mind, I found the magic number and changed it. Now I don't see any complaints about ext2 or a bad magic number, but grub2 still can't read any directory but / on my openbsd partition. I'll go back to saying that this particular problem isn't worth more of your time or mine. (But I do learn a lot by chasing these bugs even if I can't fix them :o)