On 16/01/2008, Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:59:00PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:14:37AM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I followed the Xen/HOWTO found in:
> > >
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html
> > >
> > > to install a Xen kernel on my amd64 box.
> > >
> > > I followed the steps and I got stalled after installing grub
> > > [using pkg_add -f].
> > >
> > > The grub application was installed successfully, but the stage* files
> > > were not installed [no  /boot/grub or /grub directories were created
> > > anyway], so, when I run
> >
> > grub-install should create /grub and copy the files to it. Did you run
> > grub-install ?
>
>
> I usually setup grub manually instead of using the wrapper scripts.  It's
> easy!
>
> Just copy stage1, stage2, and the relevant stage1_5 from /usr/pkg/lib/grub/...
> into /grub, and run "grub" on the command line:
>
> grub> root (hd0,0,0)
> grub> setup (hd0)

I followed your instructions and I got the same error, I guess it is a
geometry problem (as Manual said above):

Error 25: Disk error

I will try to do a clean installation again looking for problems on my
disk geometry and will tell you how it goes!

Thanks a lot.

Ernesto