Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:56:10 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM + GRUB = ?? Message-ID: <20021204145343.S59808-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> In-Reply-To: <3DEE5416.A740CAB7@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > The GRUB stuff does not use GEOM, because GEOM is an abstraction > that lives in FreeBSD only. GRUB reads the data directly, itself. > To do this, it has to have some knowledge of how to at least get > at the code in the boot1/boot2 case (try booting one of the files > in /boot instead of /kernel), and it needs to understand the FS > layout for where the files are stored, and/or use a sector map. > It will need to be updated for UFS2, when that becomes an issue. It's not the booting that is a problem. That was working fine until I had to wipe out the MBR when my disklabel was chomped last week.. It's the grub command-line "shell"/installer that won't work now (admittedly I have not updated my grub boot blocks in a while either, so it may be a pre-GEOM issue). Would not accessing /dev/adX with open() or so go through GEOM? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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