From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 17:38:38 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 3D49616A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAACF43D39 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iA4Hcb8W086886; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:38:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:38:37 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Briggaman, Jason" Message-ID: <20041104173837.GB10428@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D30D714D258D34390855FA91E1896EA890E@newman.lightship.wan> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 17:38:38 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 04), Briggaman, Jason said: > 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. I always make a grub boot disk, then install onto the hard drive from that. I don't trust the userland grub CLI to get my devicenames right. But if you have only one OS, there's no need for grub at all.. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com