When you emerge a new version of grub, it checks to see if you have already installed a previous version. If you have, it doesn't copy the *stage* files to prevent an error from occurring. It _should_ tell the user that if they are upgrading to a new version to copy those files over manually, but it doesn't. You may see a thread on the forums about this here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28522 This code should warn the user, but evidently it doesn't: ---------- pkg_postinst() {
When you emerge a new version of grub, it checks to see if you have already installed a previous version. If you have, it doesn't copy the *stage* files to prevent an error from occurring. It _should_ tell the user that if they are upgrading to a new version to copy those files over manually, but it doesn't. You may see a thread on the forums about this here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=28522 This code should warn the user, but evidently it doesn't: ---------- pkg_postinst() { [ "$ROOT" != "/" ] && return 0 if [ ! -e /boot/grub/stage1 ] then #if the boot loader files aren't in place, copy them over. cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc cp stage1 stage2 *stage1_5 /boot/grub else einfo '*** A new GRUB has been installed. If you need to reinstall GRUB to a' einfo '*** boot record on your drive, please remember to' einfo '*** "cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/*stage* /boot/grub" first.' einfo "*** If you're using XFS, unmount and remount /boot as well." einfo "*** Note that menu.lst now is called grub.conf." fi } ----------
ok fixed in grub-0.93.20030118.ebuild marked ~ for now but will trickle into stable eventually ...
