From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PhxTB-0006tJ-1j for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:59:01 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50897 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhxT8-0006t2-KQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxT7-0006x4-FU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:58 -0500 Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.197]:64187) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxT7-0006wz-DS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:57 -0500 Received: from pavo.local (ool-45702956.dyn.optonline.net [69.112.41.86]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0LFM00K7M5U745C0@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from gavron by pavo.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhxT5-0007Go-CO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:55 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:58:55 -0500 From: Chris Jones In-reply-to: <4D3E4604.9050204@gmail.com> To: grub-devel@gnu.org Mail-followup-to: grub-devel@gnu.org Message-id: <20110126045855.GA4370@pavo.local> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-disposition: inline References: <20110125021041.GA4161@pavo.local> <4D3E33EC.5080100@gmail.com> <20110125030906.GC4161@pavo.local> <4D3E4604.9050204@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:58:59 -0000 On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:39:48PM EST, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: [..] > You referred to grub.cfg and stage2*. AFAIK those are GRUB Legacy = and > not GRUB 2. > > There does indeed seem to be a problem with the GRUB 2 documentatio= n. > Most of the files in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ are of type .mod and .i= mg. > I think the file you want is cdboot.img, but I'm not sure how to us= e > it. > >>> Try http://grub.enbug.org/Manual >> >> Never heard of this site..=20 > > That's the GRUB Wiki. Thanks Bruce, and apologies for being a bit tetchy about this. I was sort of thinking to myself that the doc on gnu.org was a mix of old grub 0.9x and the new 1.9x.. and I should have said so in the fir= st place. What made the whole thing even more frustrating is that my grub setup= is on a different partition than my email.. and I found out that since i= t is ext4, I'm not even able to mount that partition from my debian len= ny system where my mail lives.. hence the wrong file name.. =E2=80=98men= u.cfg=E2=80=99 is neither grub1 not grub2.. it never existed in the first place. This said, I really believe having the wrong doc on the gnu.org web s= ite is an accident waiting to happen..=20 I have very briefly checked the manual at http://grub.enbug.org/Manua= l=C2=B9 and there does not seem to be a description of a similar procedure to what I saw section 3.2 of the =E2=80=98other=E2=80=99 manual.=20 I am pretty sure I would be able to fix just about any problem I migh= t run into when rearranging my system.. but I was hoping that having a ready-to-go solution in the form of a CD/DVD with a copy of my hard disk's grub environment might save me the headaches..=20 I'm not even sure now that what I had in mind is at all feasible with grub2, save using a floppy, which would mean purchasing an external drive.. I guess they still make them. Anyway, unless you can point me to an equivalent of that section 3.2 = of the other manual that would work with the grub I'm currently running = -- I believe it is version 1.99 -- I'll take another look at ubuntu's li= ve CD creation procedure.. It uses isolinux naturally, but I have vague memories that it also lets you do some things using grub instead..= =20 But first I need to read the =E2=80=98new=E2=80=99 manual. cj