Grub and FreeBSD

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Nov 4 09:38:38 PST 2004


In the last episode (Nov 04), Briggaman, Jason said:
> I'm trying to get Grub running on 5.3-rc2 but I keep getting Error
> 29: Disk write error. I'm trying to install it directly to the MBR. I
> can't use the floppy method because there is one. I can use the
> FreeBSD loader but I'd like to use grub. This is the only OS on the
> laptop.  If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it.

I always make a grub boot disk, then install onto the hard drive from
that.  I don't trust the userland grub CLI to get my devicenames right.

But if you have only one OS, there's no need for grub at all..

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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