From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IjhD9-00041u-Kf for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:47 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjhD8-00041M-66 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjhD6-000411-Kd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjhD6-00040y-GJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:44 -0400 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjhD5-0007nh-UC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:15:44 -0400 Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20071021201542.LKQU26125.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:15:42 +0100 Received: from [10.0.0.4] (really [82.6.98.134]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20071021201542.DFYA29112.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[10.0.0.4]> for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:15:42 +0100 From: steve platt To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <1192994968.5334.40.camel@scary.spice> References: <1192994968.5334.40.camel@scary.spice> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:15:40 +0100 Message-Id: <1192997740.5334.60.camel@scary.spice> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) Subject: Grub2 wiki X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:15:46 -0000 Some time ago I tried to use Grub2, having found that Grub1 (Legacy) didn't work on my system ( yes, I know my logic was poor! ). While trying to find how to use it, I came across the following page :- http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86 In that page there is a section about installing Grub2 on a "Real system", which seems to me to have an obvious error which might mislead others. I am too old and feeble to engage in battle with wicked wikis but I would like to offer the following comment to the page's author (or in the hope that it might help to improve the "documentation" of grub2: In the first code box of this section the last command reads :- grub-install --grub-setup=/boot/grub/grub.cfg /dev/hda I think the error is to quote the path to the config file as an argument where the path to the grub-setup program is expected. The default path is probably OK anyway, so you can probably just omit the whole option :- grub-install /dev/hda The above should run grub-setup successfully (rather than trying to execute grub.cfg!) for you so there's no need to run it again: If this works then the comments that follow about a "bug in grub-install" could be removed. Hope this helps! Steve