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Date:      Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:22:55 +0100
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GEOM + GRUB = ??
Message-ID:  <20021204202255.GH603@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021204145343.S59808-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>
References:  <3DEE5416.A740CAB7@mindspring.com> <20021204145343.S59808-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20

Actually I was having problems with the installer in -STABLE also, so
it may also be something with the port itself.

- Christian

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