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diff --git a/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cb69d10b --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/grub_legacy.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +[[!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 + + +The successor, [[GRUB2]], also needs to be ported. |