Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:43:20 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> --- >> The scripts in /etc/grub.d/ are quite complicated. The also insist that >> the kernel names be in the form of >> >> /boot/vmlinuz-* /vmlinuz-* /boot/kernel-* >> >> I like to name my kernels in the

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-20 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:43:20 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > --- > The scripts in /etc/grub.d/ are quite complicated. The also insist that > the kernel names be in the form of > > /boot/vmlinuz-* /vmlinuz-* /boot/kernel-* > > I like to name my kernels in the form of linux* so none were pic

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-19 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Another solution may be to do: >>> >>>    cd /dev >>>    ln -sv root >>> >>> before running a program that needs grub-probe. >> >> Ew!  :-) >> >> /dev/root is *never* a real device, and anything t

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Another solution may be to do: >> >>cd /dev >>ln -sv root >> >> before running a program that needs grub-probe. > > Ew! :-) > > /dev/root is *never* a real device, and anything that requires it to be > is broken by design. There were several

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:42:26 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I have a current SVN version on x86_64 for test. > > See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-06/msg00010.html > > I'll try out the patch, but it will be a few days. > > Another solution may be to do: > >cd /dev >ln

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-12 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Another solution may be to do: > >cd /dev >ln -sv root > > before running a program that needs grub-probe. Ew! :-) /dev/root is *never* a real device, and anything that requires it to be is broken by design. There were several long arguments about this on linux-h

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-12 Thread William Immendorf
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Do we add yet another package to LFS or skip the section on backups in > Section 8.4? We should add Xorriso, but only to BLFS (under CD/DVD Writing Tools), and make a link on the backup page to that package. One other change we should make: Mak

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:25:33 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I have finally found time to try to put GRUB-1.99 in the book. Building >> the package is not an issue, but creating a backup is: >> >> /usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: line 310: xorriso: command not found >> >> The pack

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:25:33 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I have finally found time to try to put GRUB-1.99 in the book. Building > the package is not an issue, but creating a backup is: > > /usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: line 310: xorriso: command not found > > The package is at http://scdbackup.sour

Re: grub dependencies

2011-06-11 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I have finally found time to try to put GRUB-1.99 in the book.  Building > the package is not an issue, but creating a backup is: > > /usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: line 310: xorriso: command not found > > The package is at http://scdbackup.sourceforg