Re: Documentation bug?

[KESHAV P.R.]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:40, Chris Jones <address@hidden> 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.
>
> My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section
> 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM.
>

You can take a look at grub-mkrescue shell script in utils dir to find
out how to create a bootable grub2 cd.

> 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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