Re: GEOM + GRUB = ??

2002-12-04 Thread Terry Lambert
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,

Re: GEOM + GRUB = ??

2002-12-04 Thread Christian Brueffer
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:56:10PM -0500, Wesley Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 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 h

Re: GEOM + GRUB = ??

2002-12-04 Thread Wesley Morgan
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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

Re: GEOM + GRUB = ??

2002-12-04 Thread Terry Lambert
Wesley Morgan wrote: > Trying to install a new version of GRUB not having much success. I'm > wondering if GEOM is interacting with it in some strange way. I am fairly > certain grub reads the partitions itself, but this would be through the > geom layer would it not? The port might need to be mark

GEOM + GRUB = ??

2002-12-04 Thread Wesley Morgan
Trying to install a new version of GRUB not having much success. I'm wondering if GEOM is interacting with it in some strange way. I am fairly certain grub reads the partitions itself, but this would be through the geom layer would it not? The port might need to be marked broken for 5.0, or someone