Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:31:54 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error 29: Disk write error while installing GRUB Message-ID: <20050210033154.GA5672@bifteki.home.net>
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Hello, I succesfully installed the grub port. I'm using 5.3-STABLE and i tried to install grub as my boot manager. I'm currently using windows,linux and freebsd. My hard disk configuration is the following: ad0s1 : my windows partition (ntfs) ad0s2 : my linux partition (ext2) ad1s1a : freebsd's root slice I wanted to install grub in the mbr of the first disk. Firstly, I copied all thefiles residing in /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd in /boot/grub In order to achieve that i used the following configuration file in /boot/grub/menu.lst : --- default=saved timeout=10 #Boot Freebsd title Freebsd5.3 root(hd1,0,a) kernel /boot/loader makeactive savedefault #Boot Windows XP title WindowsXP root(hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 savedefault #Boot Linux title Linux2.4 root(hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi makeactive savedefault --- After that, i ran as _root_ the grub cli and entered the following commands: ---- grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1,0,a) grub> root (hd1,0,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)"... 15 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd1,0,a)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed Error 29: Disk write error --- As you can easily point out, there is a failure in the last part of the installation. Are there any suggestions about it ? Please any replies to be cc'ed to ltsampros@upnet.gr as i'm not subscribed to this list.
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