From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation bug?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:22:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3E33EC.5080100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110125021041.GA4161@pavo.local>
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
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 2:10 Documentation bug? Chris Jones
2011-01-25 2:22 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
2011-01-25 3:09 ` Chris Jones
2011-01-25 3:39 ` Bruce Dubbs
2011-01-26 4:58 ` Chris Jones
2011-01-25 3:07 ` richardvoigt
2011-01-26 5:25 ` Chris Jones
2011-01-26 5:46 ` KESHAV P.R.
2011-01-27 3:53 ` Chris Jones
2011-01-28 17:17 ` Colin Watson
2011-01-28 20:23 ` Chris Jones
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