How to setup grub to boot freebsd

[Lowell Gilbert]

windlamf <windlamf at yahoo.com.cn> writes:

> Hi everyone.
> Here is my problem. I want to use grub to boot freebsd, I wrote the following lines in grub.conf:
> title FreeBSD 5.3
> root (hd0,0,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
>  
> But grub warns me: filesystem unknown, cannot mount selected partition
> Can somebody tell me what is wrong and how to setup?
> Thanks.

Are you sure you have a version of grub that knows how to boot from
UFS2?  The one currently in the ports collection seems to know how,
but maybe it didn't when 5.3 was released...