From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minor improvements in grub-install
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 23:51:18 -0400 (EDT)
> The attached patch deals with some issues that I have found so far, but it
> doesn't yet make grub-install user-friendly and fully portable, neither
> does it add support for *BSD.
Thanks!
> I understand that eliminating "test !" makes the code longer. However,
> grub-install kept running when `test' from `ash' failed to understand
> `-e', which is bad IMO. It's better to be on the safe side and follow
> Autoconf practice as long as it makes sence.
That's right.
> It was very confusing to see a message that asked me to review device.map.
> I reviewed it, re-ran grub-install - no effect. I touched device.map and
> re-ran grub-install - no effect either. Then I realized that grub-install
> hadn't inform me that it (probably) had succeeded.
I thought that no message meant success as a practice in Unix, but I
agree with you, because I reminded myself of what I felt when I ran
the "cmp" program in my early Unix days. :)
> OpenBSD has a regular file /boot. I think we should use /grub in this
> case.
Does OpenBSD define some filesystem standards like the Linux FHS?
I'm afraid that they don't like to create an unusual directory under
the root directory.
Okuji
