Hello Robert, On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Robert Millan <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Otavio, > > 2010/9/5, Otavio Salvador <ota...@ossystems.com.br>: >> I didn't get the reason why you created grub_probe. Why grub-common >> wasn't available in our target? > > IIUC grub-common isn't yet installed the first time findfs() is used. > > Alternatively, one could just apt-install grub-common and then > use $chroot $ROOT grub-probe directly. Is this better? I assumed > redundant apt-install calls are cheap. > >> You are copying a file from /boot from d-i environment, it looks >> better if you queue up the package that provides it to be installed in >> target to avoid this. >> >> Is it possible? > > No. /boot/zfs/zpool.cache is dynamically generated. It's some sort of > index of existing ZFS filesystems (think of it like fstab). GRUB itself > doesn't need it, but kFreeBSD does, so GRUB loads it at boot time > and needs to know about it when generating grub.cfg.
This is more a Colin's call then mine. Colin, what do you think about Robert's patch? Technically it looks OK but I prefer if you ack it. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=ht-apuzrfkpajk-kzbbxzparychig-yayi...@mail.gmail.com
