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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 2004 01:31:14 +0200
From:      Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
To:        Bruce Hunter <freebsd@solisix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Grub installation from the ports collection vs. Freebsd boot loader
Message-ID:  <20040703233114.GA2828@lori.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <1088896905.670.4.camel@solid.solisixoffice.com>
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Seems as you don't have write permission for /dev/ad0.  Did you run grub
as root?  

GH

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:21:45PM -0400, Bruce Hunter wrote:
> I moved all the files and ran the commands that you said. I am having
> this problem.
> 
>     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 (hd0,1,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 (hd0,1,a)"... failed (this is
> not fata
> l)
>  Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> /boot/grub/menu.l
> st "... failed
> 
> Error 29: Disk write error
> 
> grub>
> 
> Bruce
> 
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