Re: [Gnewsense-dev] missing grub-mkfont (grub 2.00) in Yeelong

[Michael Dorrington]

On 12/11/12 23:22, address@hidden wrote:
<snip>
> Finally, I managed to install grub-yeeloong-bin
> (grub-yeeloong_2.00-7_mipsel.deb, from debian/testing) on a Yeeloong with
> GnewSense/parkes (kernel 3.6.6-gnu), with following workaround.
> 
> apt-get install grub-yeeloong
> grub-install /dev/sda1 --directory=/usr/lib/grub/mipsel-loongson/
> 
> The issue with the missing "--target" or "--directory" parameter is described 
> in
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install

Debian fixed the issue with grub-install by cherry-picking a patch from
upstream:
http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-grub/trunk/grub/revision/2347

But as posted to this list:

"Support for using GRUB as firmware on Yeeloong was added in GRUB 1.99,
and for 2.00 this support has been extended to Fuloong2F as well."

and from what I can tell the --directory issue was fixed/correct for the
release version GRUB 1.99 (http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub
revision 3194).

> and is caused by a bug described in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620420
> 
> So, after rebooting the Yeeloong, the grub screen displays as expected.

Glad http://wiki.debian.org/DebianYeeloong/HowTo/Install helped.

Regards,
Mike.

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