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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: |
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>> Oh sorry, |
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>> |
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>> _very_ _important_ : |
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>> |
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>> Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. |
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> |
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> I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and |
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> carries on with its business . . . |
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So far I that now, is that now changed. You have to mount it before |
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you emerge grub. The following is from the ebuild grub-0.97-r6.ebuild: |
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pkg_postinst() { |
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if [[ -n ${DONT_MOUNT_BOOT} ]]; then |
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elog "WARNING: you have DONT_MOUNT_BOOT in effect, so you must |
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apply" |
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elog "the following instructions for your /boot!" |
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elog "Neglecting to do so may cause your system to fail to boot!" |
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elog |
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else |
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setup_boot_dir "${ROOT}"/boot |
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# Trailing output because if this is run from pkg_postinst, it |
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gets mixed into |
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# the other output. |
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einfo "" |
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fi |
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elog "To interactively install grub files to another device such as |
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a USB" |
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elog "stick, just run the following and specify the directory as |
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prompted:" |
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elog " emerge --config =${PF}" |
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elog "Alternately, you can export GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR=/path/to/use |
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to tell" |
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elog "grub where to install in a non-interactive way." |
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} |
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W. Canis |
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