make sure that the user does not have a separate partition for /boot in the script grub-install.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2000-01-08  OKUJI Yoshinori  <okuji@gnu.org>
+
+	* util/grub-install.in (grubdir_device): New variable.
+	If GRUBDIR_DEVICE is not equal to ROOT_DEVICE, print an error
+	message and exit.
+	* README: Added a caution about Automake.
+	* TODO: Updated. Only the things that should be done until 0.6
+	have one or more exclamations. Things with zero exclamation
+	will be done after 0.6 unless someone sends a patch for it.
+	
 2000-01-05  OKUJI Yoshinori  <okuji@gnu.org>
 
 	* grub/asmstub.c: Include the header shared.h after including

README

@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ the CVS:
 an unreleased version from the CVS. See
 http://sourceware.cygnus.com/automake/, for more information.
 
+Caution: The recent versions are quite unstable, so check out a rather
+old version from the CVS (1999-10-01 works fine, though it has some
+non-critical bugs).
+
 
 See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
 GRUB data and program files.  See the GRUB manual for details about

TODO

@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ Priorities:
   higher priority.
 
 
+* Port the script ``grub-install'' to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. At
+  least you will have to modify the function `convert' so that it can
+  translate a native device name into the corresponding GRUB drive
+  representation.
+
 * Add configuration inclusion support by adding a command "include".
 
 * Make symbolic links work for BSD FFS.

util/grub-install.in

@@ -197,12 +197,24 @@ fi
 # Get the root drive.
 # For now, this uses the program `df' to get the device name, but is
 # this really portable?
-root_device=`df ${grubdir} | grep /dev/ | sed 's%.*\(/dev/[a-z0-9]*\).*%\1%'`
+root_device=`df / | grep /dev/ | sed 's%.*\(/dev/[a-z0-9]*\).*%\1%'`
 root_drive=`convert $root_device`
 if test "x$root_drive" = x; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# Check if the root directory exists in the same device as the grub
+# directory.
+grubdir_device=`df ${grubdir} | grep /dev/ | sed 's%.*\(/dev/[a-z0-9]*\).*%\1%'`
+if test $grubdir_device != $root_device; then
+    # For now, cannot deal with this situation.
+    cat <<EOF 1&>2
+For now, cannot deal with the situation that $grubdir does not exist
+in the root device. Install GRUB manually instead.
+EOF
+    exit 1
+fi
+
 # Copy the GRUB images to the GRUB directory.
 rm -f ${grubdir}/stage1 ${grubdir}/stage2 ${grubdir}/*stage1_5
 cp ${pkgdatadir}/stage1 ${pkgdatadir}/stage2 ${pkgdatadir}/*stage1_5 ${grubdir}