Re: grub-install: expr complains with "non-numeric argument"

[Leendert Meyer]

On Saturday 09 December 2000 11:12, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> From: Leendert Meyer <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: grub-install: expr complains with "non-numeric argument"
> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 03:52:22 +0100
>
> > I'm not that experienced so this was a tough one for me! But I succeeded
> > to install grub on a floppy disk. See attached patch for "grub-install".
>
>   Thanks. I've checked in your patch.

The problem and the solution was already reported by Erik Schoenfelder, see:

  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2000-November/003960.html

That message addresses and supplies patches to two problems, both already 
solved in cvs:

  1. Two forgotten line continuation characters "\"
  2. expr complains with "non-numeric argument"

Erik's patch is the more elegant and made me understand sed's syntax better. 
I made one small change to make the fd[0-9]* case more consistent with the 
[sh]d[a-z][0-9]* case: in the assignment of "tmp_dsk", "/dev/" should not be 
removed.

Note: both my previous patch and Erik's patch solve the expr problem and 
don't break anything AFAIK, but IMHO the attached patch is the more correct 
one. Successfully tested "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy '(fd0)'".
-- 
Leendert Meyer 
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