On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:30:20AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:52:25PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Is there something you special-cased when handling CDs or not-CDs? (For > > example, grub-legacy doesn’t handle iso9660 from media with !2048by > > sectors at all.) > > There is, but I don't think it has any relation to this problem. iso9660 > filesystems in non-CD are known-stable code. Only the boot mechanism is new. > > In fact, I have some ideas on what could be causing this, but unless I can > reproduce it, I'm wary of sending shots in the dark. And despite all my > efforts I've been unable to reproduce it: > > - I grabbed Aurelien's mini.iso and extracted its files. > - I used the same version of grub-pc and grub-common as Aurelien > (1.98~20091229-1) to generate a new image. > - I did this on kfreebsd-i386 (I specifically installed the i386 > flavour to test this). > > I also tried today's Bazaar trunk and kfreebsd-amd64 before that. It _always_ > works for me. > > Except when I use the mini.iso directly, of course, but that's not very > useful... > > Aurelien, could you try building the image in another environment? E.g. > kfreebsd-amd64 and/or using a newer grub-pc. >
I upgraded both my kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 machines to 1.98~20090101-1. It still fails on kfreebsd-i386, but works on kfreebsd-amd64. I haven't investigated why though. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
