From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 11:46:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC99116A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:46:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E31643D1F for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 11:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from wireless (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) i36IjILc1106164; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:45:19 +0200 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 20:45:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: Jens Schweikhardt In-Reply-To: <20040406183623.GA17430@schweikhardt.net> Message-ID: <20040406204455.L631@korben> References: <20040406183623.GA17430@schweikhardt.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: imap 4244; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 cc: geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GEOM and grub X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:46:51 -0000 On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > Hello *, > > it appears GEOM prevents grub from mucking with the MBR and/or the next > 15 or so sectors where it wants to write stage1 and/or stage1_5 (grub > reports failed write attempts). > > Is there any way to let grub do its magic (other than installing 4.X > without geom, patching grub, booting a 4.X fixit CD)? I want rope > to shoot my foot!!!1! :-) Setting kern.geom.debugflags=16 should allow some foot shooting. cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/