[arch-releng] grub-gfx - Was: Dep cycles in core and 2009.01

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:52:52 +1000
> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
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>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
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>>> Allan McRae wrote:
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>>>> Gerhard Brauer wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> Am Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:23:34 +1000
>>>>> schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
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>>>>>> Would it be a good idea to move grub-gfx to [extra] if it is
>>>>>> being used on the installer?
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>>>>> Hmm, abstain...
>>>>> First i wonder that we use a community package on/for installation
>>>>> sources, but it's only the grub-gfx package. So i have no problem
>>>>> belong this to community at all. (I also thought about
>>>>> maintaining a separate grub-gfx only for archiso...).
>>>>> I see the problem mainly on our testing procedure: this behavior
>>>>> must have be detected earlier - and not from a "beta
>>>>> tester"(Thanks Gerardo!), WE have had to detect this....
>>>>> (I detect it on i686 and initiate that this got fixed. Myself
>>>>> (only i686) don't look if x86_64 was rebuild also....
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>>>> Can someone clarify what package the grub being installed onto the
>>>> users system is?   From the problems here, I am getting the
>>>> impression that it is the grub-gfx package.
>>>>
>>>> Allan
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>>>>         
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In resume:
>>> * The package installed at:
>>>    the root-fs of ISO is grub-gfx.
>>>    the root of new user system $DESTDIR is grub, but...
>>>    the MBR/BOOT of the new system is grub-gfx because
>>> $DESTDIR/sbin/grub-install (script) uses /sbin/grub (bin) and not
>>> $DESTDIR/sbin/grub (bin)
>>>
>>> * Under x86_64 grub-gfx fails in ext2/3/4 FS since don't have latest
>>> patches that the i686 version have.
>>>
>>> May be, a chroot to $DESTDIR and install grub from here with
>>> grub-install, or use the old method from 2008.06 that uses grub
>>> binary directly.
>>> Or another solution.
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>>>       
>> Thanks for the clarification.  I was concerned about grub-gfx being 
>> installed to peoples systems by default but had not realized that
>> this was because of a bug.
>>
>> Allan
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>
> So do I understand correctly...
>
> *problem 1*: grub-gfx vs grub:
> We can fix the problem that grub-gfx instead of grub is installed if we
> just chroot I think.
> Eg:
> chroot $DESTDIR /sbin/grub-install --recheck $ROOTDEV >/tmp/grub.log
> 2>&1  
>
> But, this only affects 64bit right? or not? (because in my tests the
> grub didn't look very fancy..)  If so, can someone with a 64bit
> (virtual) machine change the above line in /arch/setup and test it?
> If okay, someone with access to archlinux-installer can fix the line
> and repackage.
>
> If I understand correctly, this problem is unrelated to the "slightly
> outdated grub package" problem ( see
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13068 ), eg if it were not for problem
> 2, we wouldn't need to update the package.
>
>
> *problem 2*:
> Gerardo says "grub-gfx fails", this is the same as Alexanders problem,
> right? ("I'm afraid I confirm the grub bug. In x86_64 images grub isn't
> installed to the MBR of the chosen disk (when the boot partition is an
> extX, if it is reiserfs it works perfectly)").
>
> IIRC Gerardo already tried the new package , tested it and confirmed
> that it works.  So we just need to get it on the iso.
> See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13068
>
> Dieter
>
>   
Hi, OK Now the problem is solved, i see a grub-install parameter useful :)

--grub-shell=FILE, with this override the use of the problematic /sbin/grub.

1) No chroot is needed.
2) Now the correct grub is installed at MBR/BOOT not the grub-gfx ;)

Patch is attached


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