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-rw-r--r--open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn5
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diff --git a/open_issues/grub2.mdwn b/open_issues/grub2.mdwn
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="GRUB2"]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+Just like [[GRUB (legacy)|grub_legacy]], GRUB2 needs to be ported for being
+installable when attempted to be installed *from* GNU/Hurd systems:
+
+ $ sudo grub-probe --target=device /boot/grub
+ grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub.
+
+Etc.
diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn
index 6c96d4e1..cb69d10b 100644
--- a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn
+++ b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ is included in the section entitled
Even though it is customarily used *for* booting GNU/Hurd systems, [[GRUB]],
specifically GRUB legacy (which is still in wide-spread use, despite that
rather depricative nickname), has never been ported to be installable when
-installed *from* GNU/Hurd systems:
+attempted to be installed *from* GNU/Hurd systems:
# grub-install \(hd0\)
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
@@ -35,3 +35,6 @@ There is a patch, [[grub-install.patch]], to fix that.
grub> dump (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/grub_stage1
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
+
+
+The successor, [[GRUB2]], also needs to be ported.