On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> grub-install with some --root-directory option and a partition given as
> setup device and not a whole disk doestn't work, i.e. blocklists are
> used.
> grub-setup fails that it can't find the core.img.
>
> The problem are these 2 lines in setup():
> core_path_dev = grub_util_get_path (dir, core_file);
> ...
> file = grub_file_open (core_path_dev);
>
> core_path_dev contains the full path given with the `-d' or
> `--directory' option for example /mnt/boot/grub.
>
> This can't work because /mnt is a different filesystem and so GRUB only
> sees /boot/grub.
> Removing the /mnt part from it works fine:
> (gdb) set core_path_dev="/boot/grub/core.img"
> (gdb) print *file->device->disk
> $13 = {name = 0x640b90 "hd1,1", dev = 0x62f520, total_sectors = 16777216,
> has_partitions = 1, id = 1, partition = 0x640c10, read_hook = 0, data = 0x0}
>
> The only solution that comes to my mind for this problem is, to
> introduce a `--root-directory' option and making the `--directory'
> option relative to it.
>
> Does anyone have a better idea?
Don't we already have a function which transforms host directory into grub
directory? AFAIR we have.
>
> --
> Felix Zielcke
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Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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