Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:53:18 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rax@rakhesh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [SOLVED]Re: Error 29: Disk write error while installing GRUB Message-ID: <20050210195318.GA615@bifteki.home.net> In-Reply-To: <420B6A8E.70408@rakhesh.com> References: <20050210033154.GA5672@bifteki.home.net> <420B6A8E.70408@rakhesh.com>
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:07:10PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > I did a brief check on the net, and it seems to be bug that has been > fixed. What version of GRUB are you using? The bug was that GRUB wasn't > mounting the disks read-write. > > Alternatively, maybe you want to make a GRUB boot disk, and then try > installing from that? > I am using grub 0.95. This was exactly my point as I don't own a floppy drive. Anyway the solution i found after some searching was to use grub-install /dev/hda instead of using the grub cli. Anyway grub-install worked just fine :) Thank you for your time. Leonidas Tsabros
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