Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:30:38 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch>, questions@freebsd.org, Valerio daelli <valerio.daelli@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Grub not working Message-ID: <20050728143038.GC81656@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <xzslxzvxsl.lxz@mail.opusnet.com> References: <27dbfc8c05072723541955ba02@mail.gmail.com> <42E8B777.7010908@datacomm.ch> <xzslxzvxsl.lxz@mail.opusnet.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 28), Gary W. Swearingen said: > 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. It's easy to turn off, though, and is even documented in grub's pkg-message file: To install GRUB on the master boot record of your hard drive use 'grub-install <drive-to-install>' command. NOTE: Don't forget to run 'sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16' on 5.x and -CURRENT to enable writing in hard disk system areas. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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