cdiem
April 30th, 2008, 07:00 PM
Not sure if this is the right place to post. If not, please, let the thread be moved.
I installed FreeBSD together with a Debian install. And then the grub screen says "error 17", and I'm not able to load either system.
My harddisk is partitioned the following way (main partitions):
sda1 | ext3 | /home | 66gb
sda2 | linux-swap | | 1gb
sda3 | ext3 | / | 15gb
sda4 | ufs | ? | 30gb
At sda3 there's a label "boot", so I guess there's where grub is installed.
and sda4 is divided into 5 more partitions (logical) - sda5 till sda9 for the bsd. When I did the installation of the FreeBSD, I used the option "Leave the MBR untouched".
What I've tried so far:
1. Change something in the BIOS - no result, as I have only one harddisk.
2. From Ubuntu LiveCD I tried to mount /dev/sda3 and change the grub settings; the drive is unmountable. The error message when trying to mount is:
mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.
When I do a dmesg | tail, it gives:
ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
3. From a Ubuntu LiveCD I tried to lie the system that I'm going to install it and set mountpoints for my partitions; I was amazed to understand, that the LiveCD's installation program actually thinks I have ext3 partition at sda4 and that I do not have a filesystem at sda3! Then I restarted the computer with the FreeBSD installation diskNo1 and at sda4 it recognizes a ufs filesystem! Also, from a LiveCD of Ubuntu I ran Gparted - and thanks to my USB I have some screenshots here to show.
What's strange, the 32GB media is mounted without a problem (there should be ufs on it) and without any files on it (it should be full with the freebsd files)
Could I have messed the installation of FreeBSD so much, that I have installed it on my / partition, or is it just a Grub and MBR error at the disk allocation table? Please, I'm desperate on this.
I installed FreeBSD together with a Debian install. And then the grub screen says "error 17", and I'm not able to load either system.
My harddisk is partitioned the following way (main partitions):
sda1 | ext3 | /home | 66gb
sda2 | linux-swap | | 1gb
sda3 | ext3 | / | 15gb
sda4 | ufs | ? | 30gb
At sda3 there's a label "boot", so I guess there's where grub is installed.
and sda4 is divided into 5 more partitions (logical) - sda5 till sda9 for the bsd. When I did the installation of the FreeBSD, I used the option "Leave the MBR untouched".
What I've tried so far:
1. Change something in the BIOS - no result, as I have only one harddisk.
2. From Ubuntu LiveCD I tried to mount /dev/sda3 and change the grub settings; the drive is unmountable. The error message when trying to mount is:
mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so.
When I do a dmesg | tail, it gives:
ufs was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write
3. From a Ubuntu LiveCD I tried to lie the system that I'm going to install it and set mountpoints for my partitions; I was amazed to understand, that the LiveCD's installation program actually thinks I have ext3 partition at sda4 and that I do not have a filesystem at sda3! Then I restarted the computer with the FreeBSD installation diskNo1 and at sda4 it recognizes a ufs filesystem! Also, from a LiveCD of Ubuntu I ran Gparted - and thanks to my USB I have some screenshots here to show.
What's strange, the 32GB media is mounted without a problem (there should be ufs on it) and without any files on it (it should be full with the freebsd files)
Could I have messed the installation of FreeBSD so much, that I have installed it on my / partition, or is it just a Grub and MBR error at the disk allocation table? Please, I'm desperate on this.