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authorThomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de>2009-05-23 15:42:08 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <Thomas Schwinge schwinge@nic-nac-project.de>2009-05-23 15:42:08 +0200
commit57819e92d59e580ac549dcbe1112bc1b6f705b65 (patch)
treeb55980b374ec7b0634fc80e88b3c1083a0129af1 /open_issues/grub_legacy
parent57faf3e005fe5043cf2b73eb5adbf02957bff326 (diff)
Add my notes and patch from 2005-08-23.
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diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch b/open_issues/grub_legacy/grub-install.patch
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+2005-08-23 Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>
+
+ * grub-install (find_device): Rough port for GNU/Hurd.
+
+
+--- grub-install.orig 2005-08-23 16:56:02.000000000 +0200
++++ grub-install 2005-08-23 17:01:55.000000000 +0200
+@@ -263,7 +263,14 @@
+ find_device () {
+ # For now, this uses the program `df' to get the device name, but is
+ # this really portable?
+- tmp_fname=`df $1/ | sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'`
++ # No. (Not even on GNU/Linux.) - Thomas Schwinge
++
++ case $host_os in
++ gnu*) # TODO: What about using multiple devices?
++ tmp_fname=`fsysopts $1/ | sed -n 's%.*device:\([^ ]*\).*%/dev/\1%p'`;;
++ *)
++ tmp_fname=`df $1/ | sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'`;;
++ esac
+
+ if test -z "$tmp_fname"; then
+ echo "Could not find device for $1" 2>&1