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On Friday 18 June 2010 16:17:12 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> I'm running grub 2 it seems. I don't know when that started, or what |
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> difference it makes compared to legacy grub. I guess I don't need to |
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> know. But a recent post had me looking at use-flags, and I was a bit |
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> surprised to find (ncurses -static). If this refers to the part of |
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> grub that I run when setting up or tweaking while Linux is already |
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> running, I guess that's sensible. But does it have any effect on |
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> the boot sequence (because both of those would strike me as badly |
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> broken). |
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> I also wonder what -custom-cflags would be used for, and I don't get |
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> any sensible answer from flagedit(1). |
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> Just an inquiring mind... |
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> |
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> [I] sys-boot/grub |
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> Available versions: 0.92-r1 0.94-r1 0.96-r1 0.96-r2 ~0.96-r3 |
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> ~0.97 0.97-r2 0.97-r3 0.97-r4 0.97-r5 0.97-r6 ~0.97-r8 0.97-r9 |
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> **1.98 **9999 {custom-cflags debug multislot ncurses netboot static |
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> truetype} Installed versions: 0.97-r9(06:16:18 AM |
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> 03/03/2010)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static) |
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> Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ |
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> Description: GNU GRUB 2 boot loader |
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I see the same version availability on my box, but I'm running grub- |
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static 0.97-r9. The reason is that, months and years ago, the dynamic |
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version did not interpret TAB but just moved the cursor. I don't know |
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whether that's been fixed. |
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The fact that grub-static says it's the legacy boot loader, and that |
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it's at the same version as you quote, makes me wonder whether the |
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dynamically linked version really is grub 2 - it seems to be lacking |
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several files that are in the grub 2 in (I think) Ubuntu. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |