Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P)

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
Okay. So I started from scratch again, this time skipping the autogen.sh: untar the tarballcd to the source dir./configure./make./make install Everything seemed to be okay, no error message. Then I tried to verify that the new grub is installed in the right places. I am getting some unexpected

Re: Building GRUB2: autogen.sh error msg (AC_PROG_MKDIR_P)

2009-11-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 08:42 -0800 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: [r...@mason grub-1.97]# grub --version grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) [r...@mason grub-1.97]# Today is Nov 4th so it looks like the new grub was not copied to /usr/local/sbin. The grub versionis pointing to 0.97 as opposed to 1.97.

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
Okay. Looks like I did not get any manual docs because makeinfo failed. I have GNU makeinfo installed version 4.8. The OS is Linux RedHat 2.6.18-8.el5. I cd to the docs directory and issue makeinfo grub.texi. I'm getting a bunch of errors (see below). What do I need to do to correct the

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 09:22 -0800 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: Okay. Looks like I did not get any manual docs because makeinfo failed. I have GNU makeinfo installed version 4.8. The OS is Linux RedHat 2.6.18-8.el5. I cd to the docs directory and issue makeinfo grub.texi. I'm getting

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Dr. Dov Bulka
Is there another place where I can find information on how to use Grub2? I'm familiar with Grub Legacy but things have changed in a significant way. What I'm really after is using Grub2 to boot from a floppy. In Grub Legacy I used the following recipe: % fdformat /dev/fd0 % mkfs -t msdos

Re: Building GRUB2: error while generating info doc

2009-11-04 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 10:54 -0800 schrieb Dr. Dov Bulka: Is there another place where I can find information on how to use Grub2? I'm familiar with Grub Legacy but things have changed in a significant way. What I'm really after is using Grub2 to boot from a floppy. In Grub Legacy I