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-[[!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
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