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Bug 64428

Summary:	grub-install error handling GRUB device name
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Glen Foster <glen>
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Version:	7.3
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2002-05-04 18:38:33 UTC

Description of Problem:
grub-install will work (MBR or partition) if the device is specified as
/dev/sda, /dev/sda1 (or for that matter /dev/hda1, /dev/hda) but not using GRUB
device hames such as (hdo) or (hd0,0).

The error indcate a "token" parsing error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. grub-install (hd0,4)
2. grub-install /dev/hda5
3. 

Actual Results:
error

Expected Results:
same as that using /dev/hda5

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-05-04 20:02:26 UTC

Welcome to bash.  You need to quote the (hd0) otherwise bash tries to interpret
the parentheses.

Comment 2 Gene Czarcinski 2002-05-04 20:46:23 UTC

OK, the info for grub clearly shows:

grub-install '(hd0)'

and I just missed that.

However, there is no mention of this on man page.  I am not going to reopen this
but I believe it would be a good idea to mention this on the man page for
grub-install.