Bug#575085: grub-rescue-pc: grub-rescue-floppy.img missing

ael law_ence.dev at ntlworld.com
Wed Apr 28 13:06:37 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:00:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >     - grub-rescue-floppy.img: floppy image.
> >     - grub-rescue-cdrom.iso: El Torito CDROM image.
> > 
> > Neither are present.
> > The note in News.gz suggests that this is intentional, but
> > a little further documentation would be useful in addition to updating
> > the description.
> 
> Are you sure? 
Well, I was when I reported :-) I thought that I searched as well as 
inspecting dpkg -L, but I can't remember the details now.

> They're not shipped in the .deb itself so 'dpkg -L'
> doesn't list them, but they're generated when you install the package;
> you should find them in /usr/lib/grub-rescue/, and the documentation in
> /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian should work.

Just checked on one machine and indeed the files are there...

Apologies if I somehow missed them.

ael





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