On Saturday 09 December 2000 02:02, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> That's a bug in grub-install. Since it is a shell script, you can
> modify it by a normal text editor. If you fix the bug, send the patch
> to this list. I guess you have the skill. ;)
I'm not that experienced so this was a tough one for me! But I succeeded to
install grub on a floppy disk. See attached patch for "grub-install".
--
Leendert Meyer
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SuSE Linux 7.0 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.0-test9
--- /usr/local/src/cvs/grub/util/grub-install Fri Dec 8 14:58:05 2000
+++ grub-install Sat Dec 9 03:36:53 2000
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@
-e 's%/part[0-9]*$%/disc%'`
tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%' \
-e 's%.*/\(disc\|part\([0-9]*\)\)$%\2%'`
+
+ # floppy drives don't have partitions:
+ tmp_part=`echo "$tmp_part" | sed -e 's%.*/fd[0-9]*%%'`
+
;;
gnu*)
tmp_disk=`echo "$1" | sed 's%\([sh]d[0-9]*\).*%\1%'`
