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Bug 74513 - emerge --usepkg grub-static fails on non-connected 2004.3-r1 installation
Summary: emerge --usepkg grub-static fails on non-connected 2004.3-r1 installation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-12-15 08:52 UTC by Michael E. Adams
Modified: 2005-01-11 09:27 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Michael E. Adams 2004-12-15 08:52:09 UTC 
grub-static is missing on the 2004.3-r1 release. Can't do a non-connected installation.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow live-CD installation up to grub
2. emerge --usepkg grub-static

3.

Actual Results:  
Can't show results. My system was dead! I had to configure networking and get
grub from a mirror.

I have reported this kind of stuff before. I have never been able to do a
non-connected gentoo installation! I can't install gentoo on my systems at work
without being able to do it non-connected.

Expected Results:  
A happy non-connected gentoo installations.

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups esd f77 fam fortran
gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk imlib ipv6 jp2 jpeg ldap lzw lzw-tiff mozilla
multilib ncurses nls opengl oss pam perl png python readline ssl tcpd tiff
truetype usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib"
Comment 1 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-30 18:20:07 UTC 
grub-static is no longer required for multilib-enabled amd64 installs. multilib is enabled by default in the 2004.3 stages (and should be left that way).  You should now emerge grub from sources.
Comment 2 Michael E. Adams 2004-12-31 06:24:00 UTC 
Hold on...

If this is so, how about getting the documentation folks to fix the documentation. 
What am I supposed to do now that I installed grub-static because the documentation told me too? This hasn't been resolved if the documentation doesn't get fixed and wasn't invalid because it was reported using bad documentation.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-31 07:03:01 UTC 
Michael is exactly correct.  The documentation needs to be changed.
Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-11 09:27:42 UTC 
Fixed in CVS. Sorry that this took so long, I hoped others would make this trivial change for me.