grub/kernel install issues

Roel van der Made rvandermade at ebay.com
Tue Apr 8 12:59:02 CEST 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:41 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > 
> > I had to manually make the /boot/grub directory because without it grub
> > is complaining about it not existing (then make it?!).
> > 
> > This complete config, with the same kernel ran fine last week, I'm quite
> > puzzled why this is happening now.
> > 
> That's strange!!!

> - Make sure you've got the instsoft.FAIBASE hook as shown in the example config
>   (and make sure it is being used!)

Is it being used, as it always was.

> - You might need the following additional code in the instsoft.FAIBASE hook:
> 
> 
> if ! [ -e $FAI_ROOT/boot/grub/menu.lst ] ; then
>   if ! [ -e $FAI_ROOT/boot/grub ] ; then
>     mkdir -p $FAI_ROOT/boot/grub
>   fi  
>   touch $FAI_ROOT/boot/grub/menu.lst
> fi

This did fix the problems, thanks a lot for this !

But still.. I'm puzzled where this came from :-(


Regards,

Roel.


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