Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amoeba file system

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 07 April 2007 22:27:08 dustin@×××××××.us wrote:

> Wait, you're saying that *emerging* grub-static is repartitioning your
> drive?  I'm going to go out on a limb, without actually looking at the
> grub ebuild, and say: no, no it's not.

Watch this:

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
[...]
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1           7       56196   83  Linux
[...]

# emerge grub-static
Calculating dependencies  ..... ..... ..... .... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-boot/grub-static-0.97 to /
[...]
>>> sys-boot/grub-static-0.97 merged.
[...]
# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
[...]
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1           7       56196   93  Amoeba
[...]

Now I'm going to have to boot a CD and run fdisk to delete and 
re-create /dev/hda1, then chroot to the root partition and run grub to 
reinstall itself.

> I'm not familiar with why you'd need the grub-static package, instead of
> just 'USE="static" grub',

I haven't thought of doing that; perhaps I should try it. I used to use 
grub-static a few years ago when 64-bit grub had not yet been developed, in 
accordance with the standard installation instructions of the time; I 
suppose I've just stuck with it.

> ... you should duplicate the conditions under which your grub-static
> package was initially built by using /etc/portage/package.*,
> and then put grub-static (and not grub) in your 'world'.

It turns out that 'world' does have grub-static, not grub. Sorry I was 
unclear about that. How would I arrange package.* to pass --usepkg to 
emerge? Maybe I won't have to if your suggestion works (USE=static emerge 
grub).

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
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