On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The grub maintainer is telling you that the way in which you're trying
> to use grub is broken. You *need* to use the grub files that are in
> guest, not the host. This will be even more true with grub 2. It's not a
> matter of disliking the approach, it's a matter of it being demonstrably
> technically incorrect.
There's nothing technically incorrect about the approach, demonstrably
or otherwise, if the version of grub in the guest and host is
compatible.
grub provides no mechanism for you to know that, which means you can't
reliably know that. Which means relying on them being compatible is
incorrect.
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