Grub Solaris FreeBSD dual boot

soup_sam

I have solaris 10 installed on the first hard disk and freebsd installed on the second hard disk I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst from solaris to the following title FreeBSD root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/loader Now when I try to boot into freebsd via the grub, it gives the following error root (hd1,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee kernel /boot/loader Error 17: cannot mount selected partition

Originally asked by pallavt on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Possible failure reasons and fixes: You might be pointing at the wrong partition. Try opening the GRUB prompt, (press c in the boot menu) enter root (hd1, and press tab. See if there are any other partitions available. The version of GRUB you're using may not support GPT. Partition type ee typically means a fake MBR partition table indicator, indicating a GPT partition table. Update to a newer version of GRUB or try one of the workarounds below which might incidentally work. The file system you're using might not be supported by GRUB, or the version of GRUB you're using. In this case, copying the /boot/loader file onto your Solaris partition and loading it from there might be a solution:...

Full answer by nitro2k01: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/664587 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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