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Bug#: 194201
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Status: RESOLVED
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Assigned To: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: p cooper <pdcooper@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-09-29 14:04 0000 
manual isntallation with using default genkernel.
system fails to boot after grub-install

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.manual installation with genkernel 
2.grub-install 
3.reboot

Actual Results:  
blank screen/Error 15 grub error 

Expected Results:  
load GRUB

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-590648-highlight-.html

------- Comment #1 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-09-29 14:12:41 0000 ------- 
Which symlink? Which grub version? Please, post some useful information and
don't refer to forums.g.o. for bug description.

------- Comment #2 From Kerin Millar 2008-04-05 16:23:56 0000 ------- 
I think this can effectively be interpreted as a request to ensure that the
symlink is created as part of the setup_boot_dir() function in the ebuild.

The background is that the symlink was missing and the reporter was told "It
should have been created when you emerged grub. If it wasn't thats a bug."
Therefore a bug was duly filed.

As far as I know, it doesn't get created by grub at all and is only provided by
the stage tarball initially. If that view is correct, then I think that it's
actually perfectly reasonable to expect grub to create the symlink if it's
missing - given that all existing documentation has an emphasis on having a
separate boot filesystems whilst still using pathnames that begin with "/boot"
in grub.conf itself.

Re-opening for consideration.

------- Comment #3 From SpanKY 2008-04-06 22:42:22 0000 ------- 
afaik, grub never made the /boot/boot -> . symlink ... but ive added it now

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-boot/grub/grub-0.97-r5.ebuild?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
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