[SOLVED] Booting freebsd with grub

Hello all and merry christmas,

I just installed PC-BSD 1.5.1 (FreeBSD 6.3) and i havent been able to boot into it at all. I opted not to use the pcbsd bootloader, instead hoping to setup grub to work with it. however, i have yet to be able to get it to boot; I consistantly get

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Error 17 - Cannot mount selected partition

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The partition in question is formatted in UFS, and grub recognizes that as it tags the partition as 0xa5(freebsd).

My grub entry looks like this:

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title                PC-BSD 1.5.1
root                (hd0,3,a)
kernel                /boot/loader
makeactive
chainloader        +1

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I have tried with and without those last 2 lines. Any ideas?

Are you sure you have setup the correct parttions for your FreeBSD entry? What is the output of running "fdisk -l" whilst logged into Linux?

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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003afb6

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sda1          19076      19457    3068415  83  Linux
/dev/sda2              1        3454    27744223+  5  Extended
/dev/sda3            4730      19075  115234245  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            3455        4729    10241217  a5  FreeBSD
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5              1        1301    10450219+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            1302        2304    8056566  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b8a3b

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sdb1  *          1        4844    38909398+  7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2            4845        9725    39206632+  7  HPFS/NTFS

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sdb is my windows hard drive. sda2 is my logical partition containing my linux root directories. sda3 is my /home partition. sda4 is my Freebsd partition. sda1 is a storage partition.

what exactly does it take to setup a partition correctly? I freed up some space on my disk, and created an unformatted 10GB primary partition on which i installed freebsd.

Try the GRUB entry below

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title PCBSD
root  (hd0,3,a)
kernel /boot/loader

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That doesn't work. I still get an Error 17. Could there be something wrong with my install of grub?

Try this

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title PC-BSD
rootnoverify (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1

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Thanks! that did it. Now i have a problem with a kernel panic of some sort. well at least i will be able to fix it now that i can boot into it!

Thanks for everything