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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:38:37 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Briggaman, Jason" <jbriggaman@lightship.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Grub and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20041104173837.GB10428@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan>
References:  <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan>

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In the last episode (Nov 04), Briggaman, Jason said:
> 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.

I always make a grub boot disk, then install onto the hard drive from
that.  I don't trust the userland grub CLI to get my devicenames right.

But if you have only one OS, there's no need for grub at all..

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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