Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

[Joachim Backes]

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

          GRUB  version 0.5.96.1  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

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        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

   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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