Bug 16109 – Chapter 25, Installation procedure still inconsistent with grub.conf listing (see bug 6132)

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Michael Gebhardt 2003-02-20 19:13:34 UTC]

I've still encountered the same problem as described in bug 6132 (which has 
been closed). I've installed from stage1 tarball (1.4 rc2), and it did not 
install the symlink necessary to make the code listing for grub.conf (as 
suggeted in chapter 25 of the x86 intallation guide) find the kernel and 
splashimage. This was not a problem during an earlier install from stage3.

I installed the stage1 tarball from the 1.4 rc2 Athlon CD-image.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install from an existing Linux installation (I don't think this step is 
necessary to reproduce the bug).
2. Unpack stage1 tarball from 1.4 rc2 Athlon CD-image.
3. Proceed as described in Installation guide, specifically chapter 25.
4. Boot with grub installed.
Actual Results:  
Grub splash image and kernel image not found.


Expected Results:  
Install a symlink in boot partition's root directory to itself (called "boot").

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-02-21 00:02:58 UTC]

maybe a note or a warning should be added, but this should also be fixed on the stage 
files 

[Comment 2 Michael Gebhardt 2003-02-22 08:46:04 UTC]

Yes, I forgot to suggest that as an interim solution: Add something like the following to the 
documentation until the stage tarballs are fixed: 
 
Some users report problems with installation of a symlink necessary to make grub find the kernel 
image and splash image. Be sure to have that symlink by typing: 
 ln -s .... 

[Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-02 19:26:04 UTC]

I'd rather see the grub.conf use (hd0,0)/vmlinuz and have a warning that, if /boot isn't on a seperate partition, you need to write (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz.

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2003-05-06 05:42:59 UTC]

It seems to be fixed in all our current stages. I'm marking this bug as fixed.