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On Friday 09 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
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wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 9 May 2008 21:50:09 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> >> Check for /boot/grub/menu.lst, this is an alternate (and maybe |
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> >> empty) config file which grub seems to prefer over grub.conf. |
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> > |
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> > menu.lst has been the preferred config file for some years, it seem |
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> > that GRUB is a little more strict about this nowadays. |
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> I tried to read the ebuild but failed. |
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For reference: |
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It's this bit from the ebuild: |
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setup_boot_dir() { |
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local boot_dir=$1 |
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local dir=${boot_dir} |
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[[ ! -e ${dir} ]] && die "${dir} does not exist!" |
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[[ ! -L ${dir}/boot ]] && ln -s . "${dir}/boot" |
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dir="${dir}/grub" |
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if [[ ! -e ${dir} ]] ; then |
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mkdir "${dir}" || die "${dir} does not exist!" |
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fi |
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# change menu.lst to grub.conf |
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if [[ ! -e ${dir}/grub.conf ]] && [[ -e ${dir}/menu.lst ]] ; |
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then |
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mv -f "${dir}"/menu.lst "${dir}"/grub.conf |
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ewarn |
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ewarn "*** IMPORTANT NOTE: menu.lst has been renamed to |
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grub.conf" |
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ewarn |
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fi |
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it's called essentially this way in post_inst(): |
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setup_boot_dir /boot |
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what it does is in essence: |
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1. fail if /boot does not exist |
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2. create /boot/boot as a link to /boot |
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3. create /boot/grub |
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4. if you don't have a grub.conf and do have a menu.lst then rename it |
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to grub.conf |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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