Re: grub vs --root-directory=

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 15:44 -1000 schrieb Jim Thomas:
> Aloha,
> 
> grub 1.97.1
> 
> Situation:
> 
>    - netbooted
>    - new root disk mounted on /mnt
>    - grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
> 
> Problem:
> 
>    10_linux says
> 
>        list=`for i in /boot/vmlinu[xz]-* /vmlinu[xz]-* ; do
> 
>    but the kernels of interest are in ${rootdir}/boot/ .
> 
> What to do?  There was no output indicating that any kernels were
> found,
> but there was also no indication that none were.  Since this was my
> first
> try at grub, I had no clue and booted to "GRUB ".
> 
> Mahalo,
> Jim

grub-mkconfig just doestn't have any --root-directory option.
I'm not sure currently, if the guy who works on implementing unit
testing wanted to implement this.
But at least somewhere I saw already a request for that on Launchpad.
-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer