From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `"prefix" is not set` error message in early GRUB startup
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:21:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D1AEF83.9080400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1012252254110.228356@oretfbsg>
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> My suggested fix is to move the calls to grub_machine_set_prefix()
> and grub_set_root_dev before grub_load_modules(). A cursory
> examination of these functions doesn't reveal any dependence on any
> loadable modules, but I'm not 100% sure about that.
The dependence is subtle: set_prefix may require working
partitions_iterate (I think it does on EFI).
I'll think how to fix the matters but since normal.mod isn't meant to be
preloaded, I see the matter as minor.
> Were these two functions put after grub_load_modules() before they
> might require modules loaded there?
>
> --S
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-29 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-26 7:02 `"prefix" is not set` error message in early GRUB startup Seth Goldberg
2010-12-28 6:08 ` Seth Goldberg
2010-12-28 6:13 ` Seth Goldberg
2010-12-29 8:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2010-12-29 18:07 ` Seth Goldberg
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