Re: [Bug 630904] [NEW] grub falsely(?) says it cannot stat

2010-09-06 Thread gpk
Sorry. I guess the UUID was too long for my eyeballs and I stopped reading. As for which program to use? Yes, I was rather confused. The man pages for the two programs were less than illuminating. Grub-install says install Grub to a device and grub-setup says set up a device to boot using

Re: [Bug 630904] [NEW] grub falsely(?) says it cannot stat

2010-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 06:18:40AM -, gpk wrote: Perhaps you should add a ALSO SEE section onto the man page that says Grub-setup is normally run via grub-install. And, then one for grub-install saying Grub install ???copies files and runs and grub-setup. Yes, I noticed a while ago

[Bug 630904] [NEW] grub falsely(?) says it cannot stat

2010-09-05 Thread gpk
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 Running grub-setup from the Maverick beta live CD. It says it cannot stat, but ls -l works just fine, so stat is available on the files. QED grub-setup is wrong. ~$ sudo grub-setup --dir=/media/6450dc61-f615-4a4e-8872-0189e5e73a81/boot

Re: [Bug 630904] [NEW] grub falsely(?) says it cannot stat

2010-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 02:59:27PM -, gpk wrote: Running grub-setup from the Maverick beta live CD. It says it cannot stat, but ls -l works just fine, so stat is available on the files. QED grub-setup is wrong. ~$ sudo grub-setup