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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--fU0UwhtRbpo05rnG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 http://www.unixpages.org chris@unixpages.org GPG Pub-Key : www.unixpages.org/cbrueffer.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D GPG Key ID : 0xA0ED982D --fU0UwhtRbpo05rnG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE97mQfbHYXjKDtmC0RAjmMAKC2lVN0ue6svn/NTViPGKBEFsuOrACfS7xK MmlRLcTd/dz8LB7UWka3RQQ= =7oov -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fU0UwhtRbpo05rnG-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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