From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 17:23:11 2004 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 6E3F516A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:23:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx0.lightship.com (mx0.lightship.com [216.204.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF1F143D46 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:23:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbriggaman@lightship.com) Received: (qmail 92162 invoked by uid 1005); 4 Nov 2004 17:23:09 -0000 Received: from jbriggaman@lightship.com by anthrax by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (spamassassin: 2.31. . Clear:. Processed in 0.033236 secs); 04 Nov 2004 17:23:09 -0000 Received: from mail.lightship.noc (HELO newman.lightship.wan) (172.19.100.10) by anthrax.lightship.noc with SMTP; 4 Nov 2004 17:23:09 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.181 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:23:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Grub and FreeBSD thread-index: AcTCkvIbj7UwTUqTSceau4WuGk4EMA== From: "Briggaman, Jason" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Grub and FreeBSD 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, 04 Nov 2004 17:23:11 -0000 Hello, 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. My fstab looks like this... bash-2.05b$ cat /etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 This is the contents of /boot/grub... bash-2.05b$ ls /boot/grub/ device.map fat_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 menu.lst = reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2 vstafs_stage1_5 e2fs_stage1_5 ffs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 = stage1 ufs2_stage1_5 xfs_stage1_5 bash-2.05b$ This is what I entered in the Grub CLI.. bash-2.05b$ grub grub GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the = possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0, Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, [BSD sub-partitions immediately follow] BSD Partition num: 'a', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type = 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'b', Filesystem type unknown, partition type = 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'd', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type = 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'e', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type = 0xa5 BSD Partition num: 'f', Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type = 0xa5 grub> root (hd0,0,a) Filesystem type is ufs2, partition type 0xa5 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0)"... failed (this is not = fatal) Running "embed /boot/grub/ufs2_stage1_5 (hd0,0,a)"... failed (this is = not fatal) Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p = /boot/grub/menu.lst "... failed Error 29: Disk write error grub> quit This e-mail message, including any attachment(s), is intended only for = the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may = contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. Lightship Telecom / www.lightship.com