From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 03:29:10 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 A0BB016A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:29:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nic.upatras.gr (nic.upatras.gr [150.140.129.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B007143D31 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:29:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltsampros@upnet.gr) Received: (qmail 20834 invoked by uid 111); 10 Feb 2005 03:29:05 -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 0.045584 secs); 10 Feb 2005 03:29:05 -0000 Received: from cormorant.upnet.gr (150.140.129.26) by nic.upatras.gr with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 03:29:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 23025 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 03:29:31 -0000 Received: from upnet-dialinpool-65.upnet.gr (HELO bifteki.home.net) ([150.140.128.189]) (envelope-sender ) by cormorant.upnet.gr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Feb 2005 03:29:31 -0000 Received: from bifteki.home.net (bifteki [127.0.0.1]) by bifteki.home.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1A3VtD4005738 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:31:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel@bifteki.home.net) Received: (from gaghiel@localhost) by bifteki.home.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1A3VsMH005737 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:31:54 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 05:31:54 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050210033154.GA5672@bifteki.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: 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 03:29:10 -0000 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.