From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 22:47:46 2003 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 E2DEC37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (ny2.fastmail.fm [66.111.4.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D03143F43 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 22:47:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4815471B5; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:47:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=server2.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:47:36 -0500 Received: by server2.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id D02FB47283; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:47:36 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Jud" To: "Chris Delnooz" , "freebsd-questions" Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 01:47:36 -0500 X-Epoch: 1044168456 X-Sasl-enc: w0re8Kp2mYrL2QeawZNTgg Subject: Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5 References: <200302012119.02359.c.delnooz@home.nl> In-Reply-To: <200302012119.02359.c.delnooz@home.nl> Message-Id: <20030202064736.D02FB47283@server2.fastmail.fm> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:19:02 +0100, "Chris Delnooz" said: > Hi all, > > i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I > have > installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub > directory > with the files from /usr/local/share/grub/i381-freebsd. Next I created a > menu.lst file in /boot/grub and thought to install GRUB in the mbr, so I > launch the grub shell. My fbsd install is on ad0s2 with / on partition a. > If > i am correct that should be (hd0,1,a) for grub, right? well this is what > i > get: > > grub> root (hd0,1,a) > > Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > I looked up the error in the manual and it says: > "This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename > refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by > the > BIOS in the system." > > which doesn't help me much i'm afraid... dmesg shows my disk as follows: > ad0: 39266MB [79780/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 > > does anyone have a clue what's going on here? Two ideas, though you may want to wait to see if others more knowledgeable weigh in. Try the steps outlined in the manual regarding installing from a floppy disk. If that also runs into problems, try the "device" command to tell GRUB what hd0 is. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message