Author: matthew
Date: 2010-07-07 13:21:08 -0600 (Wed, 07 Jul 2010)
New Revision: 9336
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml
Log:
Fixed creation of a GRUB boot disk. Fixes #2706.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2010-07-04 18:33:41 UTC (rev 9335)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter01/changelog.xml 2010-07-07 19:21:08 UTC (rev 9336)
@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2010-07-07</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[matthew] - Fixed creation of a GRUB boot disk. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2706">#2706</ulink>. Thanks to
+ Sebastian Plotz for the report and fix.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2010-07-04</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml 2010-07-04 18:33:41 UTC (rev 9335)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter08/grub.xml 2010-07-07 19:21:08 UTC (rev 9336)
@@ -32,9 +32,13 @@
following commands:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /tmp
-grub-mkrescue --image-type=floppy floppy.img
-dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440 count=1</userinput></screen>
+grub-mkrescue --output=grub-img.iso
+dd if=grub-img.iso of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440 count=1</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Alternatively, a boot CD can be created by using your host system's
+ CD burning tools to burn the <filename>grub-img.iso</filename> on to a
+ blank CD.</para>
+
<para>GRUB uses its own naming structure for drives and partitions in
the form of <emphasis>(hdn,m)</emphasis>, where <emphasis>n</emphasis>
is the hard drive number and <emphasis>m</emphasis> is the partition
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