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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2009-12-21 14:40:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2009-12-21 14:40:38 +0100 |
| commit | 70de4a0486378d418111537944049911efb6dc50 (patch) | |
| tree | 40e732e97af01d639fe8320ccc2a9775fe937009 /open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn | |
| parent | 40f3bb2c34391443b0191a76e9f42170cc90ebb9 (diff) | |
Now that GRUB 2 is working, I don't see the need anymore for fixing GRUB Legacy.
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diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 622daa09..00000000 --- a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 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="GRUB (legacy)"]] - -[[!tag open_issue_porting]] - -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 -attempted to be installed *from* GNU/Hurd systems: - - # grub-install \(hd0\) - df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems - df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems - Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. - -There is a patch, [[grub-install.patch]], to fix that. - - -`grub-install`, however, still fails while invoking `grub`: - - # grub-install \(hd0\) - The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly. - - # grub - [...] - grub> dump (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/grub_stage1 - - Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS |