Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:17:56PM EST, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:10:41PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section > > 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM. > > > > The first step specifies the fo

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:10:41PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section > 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM. > > The first step specifies the following: > > | Copy the file stage2_eltorito: > | > | $ cp /usr/lib/

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:46:57AM EST, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > You can take a look at grub-mkrescue shell script in utils dir to find > out how to create a bootable grub2 cd. Yes, it was as simple as: | $ mkdir /tmp/iso | $ grub-mkrescue -o grub.iso /boot/grub | $ growisofs etc. I booted from

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-25 Thread KESHAV P.R.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:40, Chris Jones wrote: > Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point > whether it is appropriate. > > I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and > I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD > that wo

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:07:24PM EST, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > > > > What tarball have you downloaded? Source code, probably. Good question.

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:39:48PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > You referred to grub.cfg and stage2*. AFAIK those are GRUB Legacy and > not GRUB 2. > > There does indeed seem to be a problem with the GRUB 2 documentation. > Most of the files in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ are o

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:22:36PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Chris Jones wrote: I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub environ

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:22:36PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and >> I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD >> that would reflect the state of my grub environment, (including my >>

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
> > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > What tarball have you downloaded? Source code, probably. stage2_eltorito is machine code that has to be compiled for the particular architecture. __

Re: Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Jones wrote: Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point whether it is appropriate. I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub

Documentation bug?

2011-01-24 Thread Chris Jones
Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point whether it is appropriate. I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD that would reflect the state of my grub environment, (including my /b