On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:57:29 -0500, Gene wrote: >> On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:21:31 -0500, Gene wrote: >> >> >The "GRUB manual": info grub >> >> >> >> But a pinfo grub has a lot of blank entries. >> >> I may have miss-typed, and meant a pinfo grub2 has lots of blank entries. > >F10's grub2 package does not include any "info" manual at all. >Fedora's RPM package "grub2" does not contain any scriptlets that >would mess with other info manuals. > >$ rpm -q grub2 >grub2-1.98-0.3.20080827svn.fc10.i386 >$ rpm -qld grub2|grep info >$ rpm -q --scripts grub2|grep info >$ > >Even on Fedora 12, "rpm -qld grub2|grep info" is empty. No info manual. > >> But >> there is not an info file with the grub2 install. Except there is, but >> you get it with a pinfo grub after having installed grub2. > >?? That's not for GRUB2, however, but for legacy GRUB: > >$ rpm -qf /usr/share/info/grub.info.gz >grub-0.97-38.fc10.i386 > >$ info -w grub >/usr/share/info/grub.info.gz >$ > >> The following entries >> in that file (fedora F10 grub2 rpm installed) are link-less, empty: >> >> * Configuration:: Writing your own configuration file >> * Network:: Downloading OS images from a network >> * Preset Menu:: Embedding a configuration file into GRUB >> * Images:: GRUB image files >> * Troubleshooting:: Error messages produced by GRUB >> * Invoking the grub shell:: How to use the grub shell >> * Invoking grub-terminfo:: How to generate a terminfo command >> * Internals:: Hacking GRUB > >Cannot reproduce. > >$ rpm -q pinfo grub >pinfo-0.6.9-8.fc10.i386 >grub-0.97-38.fc10.i386 > >$ rpm -qld grub|grep /info >/usr/share/info/grub.info.gz >/usr/share/info/multiboot.info.gz >$ rpm -V grub >$ > >> attempting to read any of the above entries gets you a no such file or >> directory advisory at the bottom of the window. And I think you will >> have to agree that is a lot of missing data. >> >> Particularly when it doesn't Just Work. > >Look closer. ;) The packaging does not contain any obvious mistake. >Have you messed up your infodir with manual installs? Possibly. But don't forget that I also built grub2 from the tarball and installed it, which may be where that info file came from. It is not installed on the hard drives though. >Apply some trouble-shooting skills. Don't jump to conclusions. Thanks Micheal. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. -- St. Ambrose -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
