tags 584415 fixed-upstream thanks On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:07:07PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > Package: grub-common > Version: 1.98+20100527-2 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > while hunting down http://bugs.debian.org/584371 , it appears that from > version 1.98+20100527, grub-mkimage requires a -O, --format option to be set, > otherwise it throws an unclear "Target not specified". > > IMHO there are two things: > > i) the error message is misleading (_Target_ not specified, where the --help > speaks about _format_)
I've made the message clearer upstream. 2010-06-04 Colin Watson <[email protected]> * util/grub-mkimage.c: Make target-related error messages slightly more helpful; -O talks about "format". Explicitly point to the use of -O if no target is specified. Reported by: Didier Raboud (Debian bug #584415). > ii) it used to use a (supposedly sane) default and now it requires -O This was deliberate. grub-mkimage is now common across platforms; this is a step on the road to making it easier for people to do things like generating EFI boot images on BIOS systems. Since we now only ship one version of grub-mkimage in the grub-common package, it doesn't really have a sane default available to it any more. It's regrettable that this required a change to win32-support, and sorry about that - but grub-mkimage is mostly not supposed to be called directly, with the exception of tools like win32-support that are necessarily poking around in GRUB's internals, so I think this interface change is worth it. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
