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

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

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-03 Thread Chris Delnooz
Rumours go that on Monday 03 February 2003 05:33, Jud spoke the following words: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:02:17 + (GMT), William Palfreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip a lot That's what it says at one point in the docs. At another point it explains that no, the 1 isn't extra, and it

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-02 Thread William Palfreman
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chris Delnooz wrote: Hi all, i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory with the files from /usr/local/share/grub/i381-freebsd. Next I created a menu.lst file

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-02 Thread Jud
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:02:17 + (GMT), William Palfreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chris Delnooz wrote: Hi all, i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory with

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-01 Thread Jud
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:19:02 +0100, Chris Delnooz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory with the files from