grub on FreeBSD

[Luke Dean]

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use grub instead of the usual boot0 thing on a Compact Flash 
> card I use in Soekris and PC Engines WRAP systems.  I installed grub from 
> ports/sysutils/grub and put the package on my nanobsd system on the CF card.
>
> Booting on a Soekris box and running grub, I get this:
>
> grub> root (hd0,1)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
> grub> root (hd0,1,a)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xa5
>
> It seems like it can't read the ufs filesystem?   Any ideas?

Did you copy the "stage1", "stage2", and "ufs2_stage1_5" files
to /boot/grub on the CF card?
As I understand it, grub needs these files to understand UFS2.
Just a guess.