Re: Installing GRUB 2 on a CompactFlash card

[Colin D Bennett]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:57:39 -0400
Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 02:11 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > Quoting Colin D Bennett <address@hidden>:
> > 
> > > If I create one partition on the CF card, for GRUB, I assume I
> > > should set up my grub.cfg to refer to it as (hd0,1) since this
> > > will only be used on the TARGET SYSTEM, right?
> > 
> > I suggest that you use the current GRUB from CVS and use UUID to
> > refer to any drives.  update-grub will generate the new style
> > grub.cfg, but be sure to back up your current grub.cfg in case it
> > gets overwritten.
> > 
> > > Then on my development workstation I will do:
> > >    grub-install /dev/sdc
> > >
> > > But will this affect my development workstation's "/boot" ?
> > 
> > I don't think current GRUB will allow you to do that, but if  
> > cross-device installs were supported, it would indeed overwrite  
> > /boot/grub
> 
> P.S. Current GRUB is broken.  Please use the version as of June 5.  If
> ext3 is involved, use the version from May 19.  That won't have UUID,
> but it would be safer.
> 
> Things may be fixed soon, even hours from now, but I cannot give any
> promises.  Sorry for inconvenience.

What is the problem with post-June 5 GRUB?  Has it been fixed?  I will
use June 5 CVS for now then.