On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:23:55AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi, dear GRUB team,
>
> my platform is RH Linux 7.1, Kernel 2.4.5. My GRUB version is 0.5.96.1.
> GRUB seems to be great (more understandable than LILO), but ...
>
> 1. Having problems to run grub-install (some weird messages):
>
> Input: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy /dev/fd0
>
> Output:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
> expr: non-numeric argument
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
> /usr/local/sbin/grub-install: -e: command not found
> expr: non-numeric argument
here is the fix for that one, it's already fixed in CVS.
--- grub-install.orig Tue Jun 12 16:45:01 2001
+++ grub-install Tue Jun 12 16:45:11 2001
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@
# Break the device name into the disk part and the partition part.
case "$host_os" in
linux*)
- tmp_disk=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%\([sh]d[a-z]\)[0-9]*$%\1%'
+ tmp_disk=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%\([sh]d[a-z]\)[0-9]*$%\1%' \
-e 's%/part[0-9]*$%/disc%'`
- tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%'
+ tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%' \
-e 's%.*/\(disc\|part\([0-9]*\)\)$%\2%'`
;;
gnu*)
>
> GRUB version 0.5.96.1 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>
> [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
> lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
> completions of a device/filename. ]
>
> grub> root(fd0,)
>
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
>
> grub>
> setup --stage2=/mnt/floppy/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (fd0,)
>
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
>
> grub> quit
you don't want to use setup, you want to use install.
>
> Any idea?
>
> 2. The keyboard attached to my PC is a german keyboard. Therefore, during
> booting with GRUB, a lot of keys have another meaning than on US keyboards.
> The "setkey" command can be helpful, but it would be better if a command
> like "setkeytable" would be available, for example:
>
> setkeytable de-latin1 or
> setkeytable de-latin1-nodeadkeys,
>
> which could be in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that the
> keymap is already correct if stage2 is loaded.
>
> Thanx and regards
>
> Joachim Backes
>
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