Am Samstag, den 04.07.2009, 22:09 +0200 schrieb Robert Millan: > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Montag, den 01.06.2009, 21:39 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 17:12 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder' > > > Serbinenko: > > > > Don't we already have a function which transforms host directory into > > > > grub > > > > directory? AFAIR we have. > > > > > > There's just the shell function in grub-mkconfig_lib.in > > > Here's now a patch wich implements it in util/hostdisk.c and gets used > > > for core_path_dev in setup (). > > > But it doestn't work with symlinks. > > > readlink () can only be used if the file pointed to is a symlink, not if > > > a symlink is somewhere in between. > > > coreutils where the readlink binary is from is GPL 3+ but the function > > > for it uses hash tables and it seems like it would be too much code to > > > copy just for this. > > > > So what do we do know about this problem? > > We could just assume that the directory given with grub-setup > > --directory is already the real absolute path and just use the stat > > magic to make it relative. > > Or we use realpath() if avaible to get the real one. > > And on systems not having it, like mingw we could just assume that it's > > already relative and just return the path given. > > Or is there some other way this bug can be fixed? > > I just looked into this, and I don't think there's any real problem that > needs fixing. The "workaround" is just a red herring, it works for him by > pure chance. > > See: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26924
I think I tested this and the root device was set correctly, so it looked at the right device for the core.img -- Felix Zielcke _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
