Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:56:58 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Valerio daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Grub not working Message-ID: <xzslxzvxsl.lxz@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <42E8B777.7010908@datacomm.ch> (Benjamin Lutz's message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:46:15 %2B0200") References: <27dbfc8c05072723541955ba02@mail.gmail.com> <42E8B777.7010908@datacomm.ch>
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Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> writes: > Two guesses: > > - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen > this myself, but I'm not exactly why this is, or how it can be > circumvented (other than booting from another device). Yes. It wasn't always this way. You can make a gruby boot floppy and from its command line, install to the MBR. You might have to mess around with storing the grub files in /boot/boot/grub instead of /boot/grub or something; see the grub info or just try it both ways.
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