Re: [Bug-grub] Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

[Jason Thomas]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi, dear GRUB team,
> 
> my platform is RH Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.4.5. My GRUB version is 0.5.96.1.
> GRUB seems to be great (more understandable than LILO), but ...
> 
> 1. Having problems to run grub-install (some weird messages):
> 
>         Input: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy /dev/fd0 
> 
>         Output:
> 
>         /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
>         /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
>         expr: non-numeric argument
>         /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
>         /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
>         expr: non-numeric argument


here is the fix for that one, it's already fixed in CVS.

--- grub-install.orig   Tue Jun 12 16:45:01 2001
+++ grub-install        Tue Jun 12 16:45:11 2001
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@
     # Break the device name into the disk part and the partition part.
     case "$host_os" in
     linux*)
-       tmp_disk=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%\([sh]d[a-z]\)[0-9]*$%\1%'
+       tmp_disk=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%\([sh]d[a-z]\)[0-9]*$%\1%' \
                                  -e 's%/part[0-9]*$%/disc%'`
-       tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%'
+       tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%' \
                                  -e 's%.*/\(disc\|part\([0-9]*\)\)$%\2%'`
        ;;
     gnu*)



> 
>           GRUB  version 0.5.96.1  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>         [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, 
> TAB
>           lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the 
> possible
>           completions of a device/filename. ]
> 
>         grub>                                               root(fd0,)
> 
>         Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
>         grub>                                                                 
>        
>         setup  --stage2=/mnt/floppy/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub 
> (fd0,)
> 
>         Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
>         grub>                                                quit

you don't want to use setup,  you want to use install.

> 
>    Any idea?
> 
> 2. The keyboard attached to my PC is a german keyboard. Therefore, during
>    booting with GRUB, a lot of keys have another meaning than on US keyboards.
>    The "setkey" command can be helpful, but it would be better if a command
>    like "setkeytable" would be available, for example:
> 
>         setkeytable de-latin1              or
>         setkeytable de-latin1-nodeadkeys,
> 
>     which could be in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that the
>     keymap is already correct if stage2 is loaded.
> 
> Thanx and regards
> 
> Joachim Backes
> 
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