| Summary: | Emerging grub does not tell user to copy *stage* files if upgrading | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mark Lodato <itsr0y> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Donny Davies (RETIRED) <woodchip> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Mark Lodato
2003-01-04 10:07:16 UTC
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 ... |
