From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 4 17: 8:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086B937B404 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADCE43EBE for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0353.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.98] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18JkUZ-0007D6-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:07:51 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEEA699.D446FF64@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:06:33 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wesley Morgan Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM + GRUB = ?? References: <20021204145343.S59808-100000@volatile.chemikals.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wesley Morgan wrote: > 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? OK, I misunderstood; I thought you were saying it's a boot probelm, when it's actually a "write the MBR" problem. Yes, GEOM breaks a number of things that used to work in that area; you probably need to beat on Poul (there was a seperate report of a port that broke because it could not write the disklabel, that was posted yesterday -- diskcheckd, I believe). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message