GRUB-1.99 (pending)

[bdubbs@…]

New Version. Release notes at:

​http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-01/msg00082.html

Waiting for the release version. History shows there is some time between -rc releases and a stable release.

[splotz90]

grub-mkrescue now uses xorriso to create images, which isn't installed on most systems. I'm not sure if this fact is important for the book.

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to splotz90:

grub-mkrescue now uses xorriso to create images, which isn't installed on most systems. I'm not sure if this fact is important for the book.

Interesting. It looks like xorriso 1.0 was released Jan 17. It is a CMMI program. I don't think it's a candidate for LFS becasue it is out of scope for a basic system as is cdrtools, but if we put it into BLFS, it may (or may not) be appropriate to make a comment in LFS with a link to BLFS.

I've been waiting for the Grub 1.99 release to do some experimenting. It should be released in the next week or so.

[splotz90]

Replying to bdubbs@…:

it may (or may not) be appropriate to make a comment in LFS with a link to BLFS.

Yes, I think it would be meaningful to mention xorriso in the book as the user will receive a

/usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: 324: xorriso: not found

in most cases if he tries to create an image as described in the book.

[willimm]

Also, instead of making a rescue floppy, make a rescue CD. Reason? Floppies are extinct. Modern computers don't have floppy slots, they don't make floppies anymore, and you don't see them used nowadays. So, since floppies are extinct, just simply burn the ISO into a rescue CD.

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to willimm:

Also, instead of making a rescue floppy, make a rescue CD. Reason? Floppies are extinct. Modern computers don't have floppy slots, they don't make floppies anymore, and you don't see them used nowadays. So, since floppies are extinct, just simply burn the ISO into a rescue CD.

We can't create an CD/DVD form chroot because we don't have the CD/DVD writing utilities. We can create the iso image though. William, would you like to prototype the procedure? A starting point would be to download grub-1.99 beta and try to make a bootable CD as described in the instructions at ​http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM

[willimm]

Replying to bdubbs@…:

We can't create an CD/DVD form chroot because we don't have the CD/DVD writing utilities. We can create the iso image though. William, would you like to prototype the procedure? A starting point would be to download grub-1.99 beta and try to make a bootable CD as described in the instructions at ​http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM

Well, we could link to either Cdrtools or if it gets added, Xorriso, That would probally work. I'll work more on this later.

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to willimm:

Well, we could link to either Cdrtools or if it gets added, Xorriso, That would probally work.

If I have validated procedures, I'll place a note in the book that the user needs to go to the host system to burn the CD or jump over to BLFS to add the appropriate package.

I note that cdrtools has not been updated since 2004. If Xorriso checks out, that would probably be the better package. If that's the case, I could see dropping cdrtools from BLFS completely.

[randy@…]

Replying to bdubbs@…:

I note that cdrtools has not been updated since 2004. If Xorriso checks out, that would probably be the better package. If that's the case, I could see dropping cdrtools from BLFS completely.

What are you basing that on? Though the book has not been updated, Cdrtools-3.00 was released just six months ago. ​http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html

[bdubbs@…]

Replying to randy@…:

What are you basing that on? Though the book has not been updated, Cdrtools-3.00 was released just six months ago. ​http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html

I stand corrected. I was looking at the mirror ​ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/schilling/cdrtools/

It *was* a long time between releases. Have you checked it out?