Follow-up Comment #3, bug #43062 (project grub): What was supposed to change?
I've lost track of where I was and what I was doing. I believe I reported the "bug" while trying to get a handle on doing a BIOS boot from and external drive that uses 4k sectors. Since then, I have managed to get a 64-bit Ubuntu to boot in EFI mode from that drive. I would now hesitate to fling grub-install at that drive, for fear of damaging something. When I re-ran the old bootinfoscript to confirm the old results before running the new bootinfoscript, I got different results: Instead of core.img is at this location and looks in partition 112 for . I get , but core.img can not be found at this location. I don't know when or why in installing Ubuntu in EFI boot mode it would have wiped out the BIOS-boot bits. Another change to the BIS seems to have been how picky it is about which version of AWK it uses. The new script expressed dissatisfaction with the version of *mawk* in my Live-USB environment -- the old version seems to fall back on a BusyBox version with just a little grumbling. I created a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gawk to mawk to get the new script to run -- I assume that has nothing to do with the differences I'm seeing. Let me know if you want me to follow up on anything. (file #32482, file #32483) _______________________________________________________ Additional Item Attachment: File name: bis-061-results.txt Size:40 KB File name: bis-20140825-results.txt Size:38 KB _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?43062> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub