From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MtTE1-0007fU-MP for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:09 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtTDz-0007el-Qo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:08 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MtTDv-0007bO-19 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:07 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46253 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MtTDu-0007bG-O8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:02 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com ([209.85.219.208]:65435) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MtTDu-0003cF-Fk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:02 -0400 Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so628948ewy.31 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:30:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=IdiAoUnpV8RwR3HfWYvf80AU79rJXryKQFgYUJRzGSM=; b=owV8bYEc2aXtxuieJ3kLyzEMmv+kXMmsWYvSAwVqgCq8sBBaqgqS84oIzGawXaxtYI pjIk3vNaec4Nrs9MscxNKcjprD46kkDlfZqrlT/uv9sBbNoPDaKYtsD39d90VkA+QEaB cjyUs/k1Q4RWV4XDra+Hu4yP6eWO44GGsmRBI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K0sI+XRXuF/aTi1Z0iu0y+OR1sr5rUQajVfSntkqKijaCJWyaLa5ekpKhSvADRm1IO QsmjOsAFfxLKr52xDoTtK9/RuFCoAHZjE42EYPsS7f84SE1T7ZWWxfK+7NB1Dw/ZxBq4 hYWAECIWqI2jdAl35FwvhhQcAk1z/VzpQf6mg= Received: by 10.211.146.6 with SMTP id y6mr644588ebn.52.1254432601779; Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.41? ([84.74.45.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm80477eyg.27.2009.10.01.14.29.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:29:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AC51F54.1000701@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:29:56 +0200 From: Christoph Mathys User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: grub_prefix seems wrong for separate /boot partition 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: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:30:08 -0000 Hello Not sure if I've come to the right place, but here is my story: Yesterday, my package manager (deb on testing) decided that the time has come to switch to grub 1.97~beta3. Well, afterwards my system did not boot anymore, it was stuck in the grub shell, no menu or anything. It works again now and I quiet like the new grub shell (well, scrolling was horribly slow). Anyway, my /boot-directory is on its own partition, which is only mounted if I need to change something there. Now, one of the problems why the update did not work was that I forgot to mount /boot and grub could not find the kernels (my fault). After I've learned how to boot my system again and mounted /boot, grub found the kernels. However, grub_prefix seems to be wrong, pointing to /boot/grub instead of just /grub. I did not find a better way to fix it than changing the variable in grub-install. After changing grub_prefix to /grub and rerunning grub-install /dev/hda, everything is fine now. Maybe grub_prefix should be setable on the command line of grub-install? Or some other bad mistake on my part because of scoping the amount of documentation I read using google? Christoph