[SOLVED] Re: v1.99 boot floppy freezes

[Robert]

Robert wrote:
> The script below (and attached mk_fdb.sh), creates a decent
> editable 1.4M vfat boot floppy image with Grub v1.98.
>
> With Grub v1.99 (ftp version from the Grub homepage, compiled on
> Debian 6 x86) however the created boot floppy freezes after
> printing the 5 letters "GRUB ". It does also not work when I use
> the new "-a" flag on grub-setup.


I retried with "-a" and now it works. "-a" really is necessary 
with v1.99.
attached: New boot floppy creation script.

Robert

PS: perhaps on the last "-a" trial I had the modules wrong in 
(fd0)/boot/grub/i386-pc/ instead of (fd0)/boot/grub/  ... thus 
confusion with the many variants I tried back and forth ...
Grub consumes 10..100x more human time than LILO, just to get 5% 
more use cases to work ;-)
Overall Grub is rather fragile with that many files, progs and 
varying folders.  I think, mainly missing is a sort of good 
consistency check at final grub-setup time. As it was with LILO. 
After a lilo run, which holds everything well together, you get a 
concise short feedback, which menus are installed (or more 
verbose=1..5), and at the end of the message when without errors, 
you know that it works 99.9%.  With grub too often things hang 
loose.. dynamically by chance ..


> I first guessed there is a bug with --force not really going into
> decent blocklist creation as needed for this format.
> Yet a version with "32k MBR" partitioned vfat pseudo floppy
> (attached: mk_fdbootfat.sh), which also worked with Grub v1.98,
> now failes too with v1.99. The same freeze. So it seems to be a
> deeper bug.
>
> (This same Grub v1.99 build works when installed on an internal
> with grub-install /dev/sda ...)
>
>
> Robert
>
> PS: With v1.99 also the "--diet" option for creating a iso 1.4M
> floppy image with grub-mkrescue disappeared (without error message
> is. Why remove a existing functionality? Now I need to strip off
> by hand.

mk_fdb.sh
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