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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Mar 21, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> On 3/21/07, George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:16:45 -0500
> > Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mar 21, George Sherwood [pilot AT beernabeer.com] wrote:
> > > > Completed update to stable-0.8 with no major problems.
> > > >
> > > > 1.  Not part of the iso, but to a new user might seem that way.
> > > > After updating to stable-0.8 on the next reboot the system fails to
> > > > boot with grub due to the menu.1st having entries that won't work
> > > > on defaults. The original system is installed with:
> > > >
> > > > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19.5 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> > > >
> > > > After a sorcery rebuild the new menu.1st looks like:
> > > >
> > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20.3 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791
> > > >
> > > > Of course the file is not found and the boot fails.  On my test
> > > > system the vga=791 causes a problem also.  Of course both these can
> > > > be fixed during spell configuration, but I am not sure a new user
> > > > will know what to change all the time.  I haven't tried lilo so not
> > > > sure how that works.
> > >
> > > These aren't new AFAIK.
> >
> > I don't think are new either and I wouldn't say they are gating to
> > release a new iso either.  There are bigger problems with such an old
> > stable grimoire on the old iso.
> 
> The linux spell uses templates to update the boot loader config, maybe
> the iso needs to make their own templates. I'm not sure how the iso
> generates the boot loader config entries. IIRC the iso does some
> sedits based on whether you have a separate boot partition or not, so
> it could be really easy for the iso to make the template file, or
> really hard... not sure...

The easiest way to do it is usually to use (hd0,0)/boot/... and then have a
symlink from /boot/boot to /boot (cd /boot; ln -s . boot).

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