From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PhYYM-0005JB-Pn for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:22:42 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44090 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhYYK-0005FC-PP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:22:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhYYJ-0007b3-HE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:22:40 -0500 Received: from mail-yi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:37725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhYYJ-0007aw-Ev for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:22:39 -0500 Received: by yia25 with SMTP id 25so1761881yia.0 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:22:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0+BPR6lSzxFcc0jF8u5WGFKVwfNUIKyGdcBnrZYhFYw=; b=VMrFjQMiOAY4jlO6chS13yRCLu4lCLGmvIZZSxTYKZ4mTglFmGtmQVL/wNZWD4vJPN sR+2djU+WnlS1J7kJhMG1ZKVJhSj5f4zWvHn61Wc5cMGfwdmVXyad1O4fxTVDNuwFMHo tE8yR+HzZAM9UXypjPuLA36w0Q96j0wETeIVw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OhiAKpn7AVb3rhaAvsVdKo+OwI6PGmBOsQ8JM8X5mDbEfhb1SW2tNWCXegvVVMuTVj htLRzhTbK52kS69fl+b9q9FlbQSfmTelHMC31ZtwDliWVfh/WrLJ5w6r8nRn2zCPPWLy vF44WYf6vh3P+V0iL78+q+AKckwchPWNlceF4= Received: by 10.101.183.14 with SMTP id k14mr3486980anp.23.1295922158389; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:22:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-72-181-111-242.satx.res.rr.com [72.181.111.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b27sm17023979ana.8.2011.01.24.18.22.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:22:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D3E33EC.5080100@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:22:36 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20110125021041.GA4161@pavo.local> In-Reply-To: <20110125021041.GA4161@pavo.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Documentation bug? 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: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:41 -0000 Chris Jones wrote: > Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point > whether it is appropriate. > > I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and > I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD > that would reflect the state of my grub environment, (including my > /boot/grub/menu.cfg) that would let me boot the system as if I was > booting from the HD. I don't know where you looked, but the information you refer to is for GRUB Legacy. The configuration file for GRUB 2 is /boot/grub/grub.cfg Try http://grub.enbug.org/Manual > My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section > 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM. > > The first step specifies the following: > > | Copy the file stage2_eltorito: > | > | $ cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub > > I looked on the ubuntu 10.10 system where my grub environment happens to > live and was unable to find any file named ‘stage2_eltorito’ anywhere on > the system and definitely not in the above directory. > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > > Is this file part of another package that complements grub? > > Is the documentation in the process of being updated? > > Am I missing something? > > If the above procedure is not longer current, please let me know how > I could create a bootable copy of my current grub environment, > preferably on a CD or DVD, so that I could use it as a simple backup > solution in the event I am no longer able to boot my systems from the > hard drive. > > Thanks, > > cj > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >