Re: grub-0.5.96.1 grub-install problems with /dev/fd0

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden>
Subject: grub-0.5.96.1 grub-install problems with /dev/fd0
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:55:46 +0200 (MEST)

> * The sed commands in line 79 and 81 go across two lines, but these
>   lines are not ended with `\`

  Sorry for the inconvenience. That was fixed after 0.5.96.1.

> Further, there is a sentence in the documentation that I do not fully
> understand (the first sentence in the section 'Installing GRUB using
> grub-install'):
> 
>    Unfortunately, if you do want to install GRUB under a UNIX-like OS
>    (such as GNU), invoke the program `grub-install' as the superuser
>    ("root").
> 
> What's unfortunate?

  It is that you decided to install GRUB under a UNIX-like OS. We are
recommedning installing GRUB in the native environment, because we
cannot assure that that way is safe.

Thanks,
Okuji