Ken Moffat wrote:
> 2009/10/29 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com>:
>> I have updated the book to GRUB-1.97. The on-line book should regenerate in
>> a
>> few hours.
>>
>> The GRUB section in Chapter 6 is pretty straight forward, but the section on
>> configuration and testing in Chapter 8 is pretty complex. I'd appreciate
>> anyone
>> building and installing this package giving feedback.
>>
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/grub.html
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/grub.html
>>
>> -- Bruce
>> --
>
> Seems to have built on x86_64 (pure64) with a DESTDIR install. But I got a
> lot
> of errors while it was creating the info files, ending in
>
> ../docs/grub.texi:83: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Preset Menu'
> (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
> ../docs/grub.texi:81: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Network'
> (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
> ../docs/grub.texi:80: Menu reference to nonexistent node
> `Configuration' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
> ../docs/grub.texi:964: warning: unreferenced node `Menu entry editor'.
>
> This is using texinfo-4.13. Status was 0, so I carried on.
Yes, this is a known problem with incomplete documentation. The Makefile says:
#Use --force until such time as the documentation is cleaned up.
docs/grub.info: docs/grub.texi docs/version.texi docs/fdl.texi
$(MKDIR_P) docs
$(MAKEINFO) -P $(builddir)/docs --no-split --force $< -o $@ || :
> I'm not close to testing it (need to create an up to date lilo rescue
> CD before I start, then see if grub-mkrescue can create a CD (I don't
> have any floppy drives) - found some docs, but I think they were for
> grub-legacy.
>
> At this point, the missing Configuration node in the info is a pain,
> and there is nothing in info for grub-mkrescue. Also, it created man1
> and man8 directories, but they are empty.
Yes, you need the help2man utility to generate the help pages, but that doesn't
do much good because the help is way too brief.
> Oh well, at least grub-mkrescue is a script. Looks as if cdrom is the
> default, but El Torito emulation isn't..
Yes. But it uses something I don't have: genisoimage. cdrtools has mkisofs
and
it may be possible to do use that, but I wouldn't want to add cdrtools to LFS.
-- Bruce
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