From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NNw6Y-0006Sl-U6 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNw6V-0006Lz-TO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:19 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NNw6R-0006C5-Ty for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59001 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NNw6R-0006Bl-Pg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:15 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:58746 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NNw6R-0007Ht-Ha for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:15 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNw6P-0000BK-FB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:24:13 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NNw6O-0003Oa-EI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:24:12 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:24:12 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091224222412.GU12122@thorin> References: <4B30B34A.6030600@labri.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4B30B34A.6030600@labri.fr> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: boot directory prefix in grub-install (even with --root-directory) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:24:20 -0000 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:53:46PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > The problem arises e.g. with NetBSD which uses /boot for its own > bootloader. The script util/grub-install.in contains lines to take care > of that situation (lines 160-172), but these lines rely on a variable > ${host_os} that is not set. This might be deprecated code from GRUB > Legacy's grub-install, where ${host_os} is set by a configure > substitution. It derives from GRUB Legacy, but it's not deprecated. I just fixed $host_os initialization (in Bazaar trunk). -- Robert Millan "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi