[PATCH] Re: grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda1 fails

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 01.06.2009, 21:39 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> Am Mittwoch, den 06.05.2009, 17:12 +0200 schrieb Vladimir 'phcoder'
> Serbinenko:
> > Don't we already have a function which transforms host directory into
> > grub
> > directory? AFAIR we have.
> 
> There's just the shell function in grub-mkconfig_lib.in
> Here's now a patch wich implements it in util/hostdisk.c and gets used
> for core_path_dev in setup ().
> But it doestn't work with symlinks.
> readlink () can only be used if the file pointed to is a symlink, not if
> a symlink is somewhere in between.
> coreutils where the readlink binary is from is GPL 3+ but the function
> for it uses hash tables and it seems like it would be too much code to
> copy just for this.

Here's a new patch which prints out an error if stat () fails.
-- 
Felix Zielcke

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