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

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

Alexander De Sousa wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
> <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar <mailto: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 <http://www.djgera.com.ar/>
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>
>
>     --- 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
Yes!, No other relevant problem for GRUB here. But maybe, a good choice,
is that the final ISO (x86_64) include a patched grub-gfx (-11 revision)
for rescue and other purposes.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera )
http://www.djgera.com.ar
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