GRUB-1.97

[ALIP BUDIANTO]

ANd unnoticed failure,"Using GRUB to make you LFS system bootable will  
be discussed ...". The you in the qoute must be your.
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> Ken Moffat wrote:
>> 2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com>:
>>> I have updated the book to GRUB-1.97.  The on-line book should  
>>> regenerate in a
>>> few hours.
>>>
>>> The GRUB section in Chapter 6 is pretty straight forward, but the  
>>> section on
>>> configuration and testing in Chapter 8 is pretty complex.  I'd  
>>> appreciate anyone
>>> building and installing this package giving feedback.
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/grub.html
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html
>>>
>>>  -- Bruce
>>> --
>>
>> Seems to have built on x86_64 (pure64) with a DESTDIR install.  But  
>> I got a lot
>> of errors while it was creating the info files, ending in
>>
>> ../docs/grub.texi:83: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Preset  
>> Menu'
>> (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
>> ../docs/grub.texi:81: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Network'
>> (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
>> ../docs/grub.texi:80: Menu reference to nonexistent node
>> `Configuration' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
>> ../docs/grub.texi:964: warning: unreferenced node `Menu entry  
>> editor'.
>>
>> This is using texinfo-4.13. Status was 0, so I carried on.
>
> Yes, this is a known problem with incomplete documentation.  The  
> Makefile says:
>
> #Use --force until such time as the documentation is cleaned up.
> docs/grub.info: docs/grub.texi docs/version.texi docs/fdl.texi
>    $(MKDIR_P) docs
>    $(MAKEINFO) -P $(builddir)/docs --no-split --force $< -o $@ || :
>
>> I'm not close to testing it (need to create an up to date lilo rescue
>> CD before I start, then see if grub-mkrescue can create a CD (I don't
>> have any floppy drives) - found some docs, but I think they were for
>> grub-legacy.
>>
>> At this point, the missing Configuration node in the info is a pain,
>> and there is nothing in info for grub-mkrescue.  Also, it created  
>> man1
>> and man8 directories, but they are empty.
>
> Yes, you need the help2man utility to generate the help pages, but  
> that doesn't
> do much good because the help is way too brief.
>
>> Oh well, at least grub-mkrescue is a script.  Looks as if cdrom is  
>> the
>> default, but El Torito emulation isn't..
>
> Yes.  But it uses something I don't have: genisoimage.  cdrtools has  
> mkisofs and
> it may be possible to do use that, but I wouldn't want to add  
> cdrtools to LFS.
>
>   -- Bruce
>
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