Hi Jürgen
Could you try the attached patch? I think this is a better aproach and avoids
future problems.
Thanks
--
Dorileo
On Sunday 25 February 2007 14:29, jlueters wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-23
> Severity: important
>
> If grub is under /boot/boot/grub update grub fails because it does
> call "grub-set-default" without parameter ""--root-directory".
> grub-set-default fails because it has been provided with the wrong root
> directory.
>
> Possible fix:
>
> line 400
> replace
> grub-set-default 0
>
> with
> if [ $grub_dir = /boot/boot/grub ]
> then grub-set-default --root-directory=/boot 0
> else grub-set-default --root-directory=/ 0
> fi
>
>
> Jürgen
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
> APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
>
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for
> terminal hand
>
> grub recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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--- grub-set-default 2007-02-13 16:50:53.000000000 +0000
+++ grub-set-default.changed 2007-02-27 15:18:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -74,18 +74,45 @@
exit 1
fi
+find_grub_dir ()
+{
+ echo -n "Searching for GRUB installation directory ... " >&2
+
+ for d in $grub_dirs ; do
+ if [ -d "$d" ] ; then
+ grub_dir="$d"
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+
+ if [ -z "$grub_dir" ] ; then
+ abort "No GRUB directory found.\n###"
+ else
+ echo "found: $grub_dir" >&2
+ fi
+
+ echo $grub_dir
+}
+
+grub_dirs="/boot/grub /boot/boot/grub"
+
# Determine the GRUB directory. This is different among OSes.
-grubdir=${rootdir}/boot/grub
-if test -d ${grubdir}; then
+# if rootdir has been informed use it or find grubdir otherwise
+if [ -n ${rootdir} ]; then
+ grubdir=${rootdir}/boot/grub
+ if test -d ${grubdir}; then
:
-else
+ else
grubdir=${rootdir}/grub
if test -d ${grubdir}; then
- :
+ :
else
- echo "No GRUB directory found under ${rootdir}/" 1>&2
- exit 1
+ echo "No GRUB directory found under ${rootdir}/" 1>&2
+ exit 1
fi
+ fi
+else
+ grubdir=$(find_grub_dir)
fi
file=${grubdir}/default
