Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:23:05 -0500 From: "Briggaman, Jason" <jbriggaman@lightship.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Grub and FreeBSD Message-ID: <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan>
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Hello,
I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error 29: =
Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I can't =
use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the FreeBSD loader =
but I'd like to use grub. This is the only OS on the laptop. If anyone =
has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.
My fstab looks like this...
bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
This is the contents of /boot/grub...
bash-2.05b$ ls /boot/grub/
device.map fat_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 menu.lst =
reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2 vstafs_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 =
stage1 ufs2_stage1_5 xfs_stage1_5
bash-2.05b$
This is what I entered in the Grub CLI..
bash-2.05b$ grub
grub
GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the =
possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hd0,0,
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow]
BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type =
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type =
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type =
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type =
0xa5
BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type =
0xa5
grub> root (hd0,0,a)
Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not =
fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0,0,a)"... failed (this is =
not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p =
/boot/grub/menu.lst "... failed
Error 29: Disk write error
grub> quit
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