[Bug 613463] Re: [10.10 - Alpha 3 (candidate)] Prompts misleading grub dialogs during UEC Node installation.

[Scott Moser]

This bug is present now because eucalyptus-nc added a dependency on
grub-pc.  I believe that this caused grub-pc to get installed earlier in
the installation process, before some other things were properly set up.

The reason for the dependency on grub-pc is that eucalyptus-nc is
creating a boot floppy (no, I'm not kidding) using grub-mkrescue.  That
is done in mk-mb-loader [1].  grub-rescue depends on a functional grub-
mkimage, and to create bootable content for a "pc" system, that depends
on files inside grub-pc (the content of /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/).

One solution to this would be to provide the contents of
/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc in a separate package , and maybe in general all
of the /usr/lib/grub/<format> directories.  Ie, if there was a package
called grub-pc-modules, then eucalyptus-nc could depend on that package
and on grub-common (for grub-rescue).  That would have the added benefit
of not explicitly requiring a bootloader in eucalyptus-nc (for a case
where grub-pc wasn't the right boot loader for the host system).

It seems to me that the content of /usr/lib/grub/<dir> is useful of
simply being a host's bootloader.  It may well make sense to have all of
/usr/lib/grub/* installed on a system, but grub not used as the host's
bootloader at all.

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[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/maverick/eucalyptus/devel/annotate/head%3A/tools/mk-mb-loader


** Also affects: grub (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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[10.10 - Alpha 3 (candidate)] Prompts misleading grub dialogs during UEC Node installation.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/613463
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