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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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