Re: Fix for grub-switch-to-blscfg

[Konstantin Vlasov]

Hi, Daniel.

>> We've discovered that there are some inconsistencies in the
>> grub-switch-to-blscfg tool, that lead to generating invalid BLS configs, when
>> /boot is not a separate partition.
>>
>> The attached patch fixes it.
>>
>>
>> P. S. There is also a secondary issue, which this patch also fixes: the 
>> broken
>> "options" line generated by mkbls(). But it's automatically replaced with the
>> correct one by the subsequent call to "grub2-mkconfig" in the main code, so 
>> it's
>> more for the purity of the code, rather than out of practical necessity.

> Thanks for the patch. Sadly the BLS support is not in the GRUB upstream
> yet. So, simply it will not apply. I suggest sending the patch to the
> GRUB maintainers of distro which you are using.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize it could be a custom addition, and didn't check 
with 
the actual upstream repository. Indeed, it's added by a separate patch in the 
RHEL package version which I was using.

I'll be more thorough next time.


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 Konstantin                          mailto:konstantin.vlasov@virtuozzo.com