[bug #36639] Please make grub-bios-setup support symlinks

[Sebastian Pipping]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36639>

                 Summary: Please make grub-bios-setup support symlinks
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: hartwork
            Submitted on: Tue 12 Jun 2012 04:10:54 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Bazaar - trunk
         Reproducibility: None
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

If I pass a device name to it: grub-bios-setup is happy.  If I pass a symlink
to that device: it throws an error.

If that's a feature, I'd expect grub-bios-setup to complain that symlinks are
not allowed and for what reason at runtime.  Otherwise, please make use of
symlinks possible.

This is what I have been trying to do on the shell originally:


# ls -al /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jun 12 17:17 /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK -> loop7

# grub-bios-setup --directory=/tmp/tmp.IDdNMT35bf/boot/grub2/i386-pc
--device-map= /dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK
Invalid device `/dev/GRUB_BOOT_TEST_DISK'.
Usage: grub-bios-setup [OPTION...] DEVICE
Try `grub-bios-setup --help' or `grub2-bios-setup --usage' for more
information.

# grub2-bios-setup --directory=/tmp/tmp.IDdNMT35bf/boot/grub2/i386-pc
--device-map= /dev/loop7 && echo GOOD
GOOD


I'm referring to GRUB 2.00~beta6 here.




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