Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-09 Thread Tim Kientzle
"David O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: Nothing against 'booteasy', it does the job - but it looks ugly :-) If that is the only reason to use grub, try osbsbeta.exe that is in the tools directory of your CDROM or ftp.

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-09 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:14:30PM +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Nothing against 'booteasy', it does the job - but it looks ugly :-) If that is the only reason to use grub, try osbsbeta.exe that is in the tools directory of your CDROM or ftp.freebsd.org. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-09 Thread Matthias Schuendehuette
Hi all, I'm fighting with the same problem and found that grub *does* recognize the disks if started with '--read-only'... That fits perfectly to the following paragraph found in the 5.0-RELEASE Errata: "The geom(4)-based disk partitioning code in the kernel will not allow an open partition t