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

[Alexander De Sousa]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <
vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera )
> http://www.djgera.com.ar
> KeyID: 0x1B8C330D
> Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219  76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
>
>
> --- setup.orig  2009-01-31 18:12:15.000000000 -0200
> +++ setup       2009-01-31 18:12:51.000000000 -0200
> @@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@
>         DIALOG --msgbox "GRUB root and setup devices could not be
> auto-located.  You will need to manually run the GRUB shell to install a
> bootloader." 0 0
>         return 1
>     fi
> -    $DESTDIR/sbin/grub-install --recheck --root-directory=$DESTDIR
> $ROOTDEV >/tmp/grub.log 2>&1
> +    $DESTDIR/sbin/grub-install --recheck --grub-shell=$DESTDIR/sbin/grub
> --root-directory=$DESTDIR $ROOTDEV >/tmp/grub.log 2>&1
>     cat /tmp/grub.log >$LOG
>     # unfreeze xfs filesystems
>     if [ -x /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze ]; then
>
>
That's it! That way grub is installed instead of grub-gfx, so... there is no
other problem regarding GRUB, right? As the grub package available in the
core repository is already patched to suport ext4 and big inode size.

Anyway, that chroot line didn't work :(. But there you don't have to worry
about it, use the --grub-shell parameter and everything will be ok.

-- 
Alexander
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