grub problem

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Fri Aug 3 10:49:56 CEST 2007


On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:41:14AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:49:04AM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > >     > OK. so i have one of the two problems:
> > > >     > 1.) my install image is broken
> > > >     > 2.) grub isn't installed (if it is not installed as default, how can i
> > > >     > specify to do so?)
> > > > 
> > > >     > what do you think?
> > > > Read the log files. There you will find the cause why grub wasn't installed.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Hmm, don't his errors mean that grub-install isn't installed _in the NFSROOT_?
> > > At least, grub-install isn't in the PATH.
> > 
> > In my version of the menu.list postinst, grub-install is called with a
> > $ROOTCMD (i.e. chrooted into $target), which is IMHO also the only meaningfull
> > thing to do.
> >
> 
> Well, the current simple example from SVN trunk does not call grub-install
> within the chroot...

so this is clearly an error... one can not rely on grub being installed to
the nfsroot...

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c u
henning


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