From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-install on powermac newworld
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:56:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511181156.41735.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1132207501.2541.26.camel@silence>
On Thursday 17 November 2005 07:05 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > 1. The path to ofpathname is hard-coded in the script as /usr/sbin.
> > For me running on debian that doesn't seem right. Since it's not
> > currently part of a package, I'd probably end up putting it in
> > /usr/local/sbin instead. Maybe its presence and location should be
> > detected by configure?
>
> Perhaps. I know people were thinking about getting ofpathname into
> Debian proper, but I suspect I need to poke some people about that.
Mike is right. We should add --with-ofpathname and reasonable detection code
to configure.
> What made you expect --root-directory was a valid option? Other packages
> use that option? Which?
Please look at grub-install for PC. We should keep grub-install as compatible
as possible among various architectures.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-18 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 4:17 grub-install on powermac newworld Mike Small
2005-11-17 6:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-18 10:56 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2005-11-21 6:00 ` Mike Small
2005-11-23 4:42 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-23 3:55 ` grub-install --root-directory Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-25 20:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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