G'day there Hall,

> I know NOTHING about FreeBSD filesystems or partition types, but it's 

        Well, that makes 2 of us =)

> possible you have to compile support into your kernel for this. Maybe it's 

        Hmmm...         hadn't thought of kernel support. It's an obvious one now that 
you've pointed it out though.

> already there as a module too though... You should probably check that first.

        I'll have a look.
 
> It does appear that "ufs" is the proper filesytem type as you've specified 
> already.

        That's something then. Not all is lost.

> This is a whole different issue. Edit /etc/lilo.conf and add an 'image' 
> section for FreeBSD. You'll have multiple image sections already - two, at 

        I've got to have Gentoo "see" the partition first though, so that I can enter 
its path. 

> least, Gentoo and WinXP. Just duplicate the format for the new FreeBSD 
> section. 'root' should be "/dev/hdb3", per your /etc/fstab listing. When 
> you're done editing, run /sbin/lilo as root user.

        That shouldn't be too difficult. Once I can find the image then I should be 
right.

Thanks muchly for your assistance,
Ken McLennan
Brisbane, Australia.

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