From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 19:50:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D56916A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:50:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E0D343D2D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:50:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltsampros@upnet.gr) Received: (qmail 28816 invoked by uid 111); 10 Feb 2005 19:50:28 -0000 Received: from ltsampros@upnet.gr by nic.upatras.gr by uid 103 with qmail-scanner-1.22 ( Clear:RC:1(150.140.129.26):. Processed in 0.063761 secs); 10 Feb 2005 19:50:28 -0000 Received: from cormorant.upnet.gr (150.140.129.26) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 19:50:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 3751 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 19:51:00 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialupb-140.upnet.gr (HELO bifteki.home.net) ([150.140.131.140]) (envelope-sender ) by cormorant.upnet.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Feb 2005 19:51:00 -0000 Received: from bifteki.home.net (bifteki [127.0.0.1]) by bifteki.home.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1AJrIk6000635; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:53:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel@bifteki.home.net) Received: (from gaghiel@localhost) by bifteki.home.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1AJrIc8000634; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:53:18 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:53:18 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros To: Rakhesh Sasidharan Message-ID: <20050210195318.GA615@bifteki.home.net> References: <20050210033154.GA5672@bifteki.home.net> <420B6A8E.70408@rakhesh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420B6A8E.70408@rakhesh.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED]Re: Error 29: Disk write error while installing GRUB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:50:33 -0000 On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:07:10PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > I did a brief check on the net, and it seems to be bug that has been > fixed. What version of GRUB are you using? The bug was that GRUB wasn't > mounting the disks read-write. > > Alternatively, maybe you want to make a GRUB boot disk, and then try > installing from that? > I am using grub 0.95. This was exactly my point as I don't own a floppy drive. Anyway the solution i found after some searching was to use grub-install /dev/hda instead of using the grub cli. Anyway grub-install worked just fine :) Thank you for your time. Leonidas Tsabros