Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:06:33 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM + GRUB = ?? Message-ID: <3DEEA699.D446FF64@mindspring.com> References: <20021204145343.S59808-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>
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Wesley Morgan wrote: > It's not the booting that is a problem. That was working fine until I > had to wipe out the MBR when my disklabel was chomped last week.. It's > the grub command-line "shell"/installer that won't work now (admittedly I > have not updated my grub boot blocks in a while either, so it may be a > pre-GEOM issue). Would not accessing /dev/adX with open() or so go through > GEOM? OK, I misunderstood; I thought you were saying it's a boot probelm, when it's actually a "write the MBR" problem. Yes, GEOM breaks a number of things that used to work in that area; you probably need to beat on Poul (there was a seperate report of a port that broke because it could not write the disklabel, that was posted yesterday -- diskcheckd, I believe). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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