Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:34:55 +0100 From: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grub on -current? Message-ID: <200311212334.55613.msch@snafu.de> In-Reply-To: <20031121120834.E75740@root.org> References: <20031121120834.E75740@root.org>
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Hi Nate, On Friday 21 November 2003 21:11, Nate Lawson wrote: > Is anyone using this successfully? I had to install it from Linux. > The grub.conf below works when installed by the Linux grub-install > but FreeBSD's port always fails with the below messages. Package: > grub-0.92 Yes, I'm using grub but yes, I also installed from Linux. The problem seems to be GEOM, which doesn't allow to write the bootsector to a disk which has mounted filesystems on it. So if you have / on the bootdisk, there's no chance but to boot grub from floppy and install it from there. Ahm, nearly. There seems to be a sysctl (...geom.debug=16 ?) which allows to write the bootsector, but you better ask phk directly - I'm not sure... -- Ciao/BSD - Matthias Matthias Schuendehuette <msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany) PGP-Key at <pgp.mit.edu> and <wwwkeys.de.pgp.net> ID: 0xDDFB0A5F
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