Bug#524756: please provide a 64bit grub-efi for the i386 distribution

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 15:53 +0200 schrieb A Mennucc:
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> While doing the above tests , I ran into many things that do not work.
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> 1) the grub shell is quite unstable.... if I just type
>   linux /vmlinux ....
>   initrd /initrd ....
>   boot
>  into it , then it works fine; if I enter some commands such as 'ls'
> 'lsmod' 'root', then it all goes haywire, the  commands  sometimes do
> nothing, sometimes they report strange errors etc etc
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> 2) I tried creating a grub.cfg file to have a nice menu,
>  but it does not work, all I get are 'kernel not loaded'
> 
> 3) moreover the fact that a 'grub.cfg' file is there
>  seems to break grub2 havoc: if I hit 'c' to switch to the
>  shell, it behaves as in (1) above
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> - -) I cannot access the EXT3 partition  , if I type
>  'ls (hd0,3)'
>  at the grub shell, it reports
>  error:unknown filesystem
> 
> I tried the command
>  'insmod ext2.mod'
> but it says
>  'error: ext2 is already loaded'
> 
> - -) similarly for the Mac OS partition

No clue about these.
Maybe someone at bug-grub at gnu.org or grub-devel at gnu.org (though that's
more the developing list) can tell something about.
Neither Robert nor me ever used the EFI version ourself.

> - -) there is no 'update-grub' in the Debian packages 'grub-common'
> 'grub-efi-amd64' ?

Upstream provides grub-mkconfig which generates the output. Without `-o
file' it prints to stdout.
I'm not sure we should add an update-grub stub for the non grub-pc
packages.
update-grub was and is always Debian/Ubuntu specific.
update-grub is anyway just a wrapper around grub-mkconfig in grub-pc

> - -) where is the grub info file installed in the Debian packages??

What's the grub info file?
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Felix Zielcke