ANd unnoticed failure,"Using GRUB to make you LFS system bootable will be discussed ...". The you in the qoute must be your. On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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 > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
