grub2 and btrfs

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 01/10/2013 10:23 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I am trying to add more btrfs support to grub2.  I have os-prober 
> patched to gather and return more btrfs information and 
> linux-boot-prober patched for btrfs also.  These patches support root, 
> boot, and root+boot on a btrfs subvolume: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888341
>
> However, for grub2 to take exploit this new capability of the 
> os-prober package, there needs to be a small modification to 
> /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
>
> So, downloaded the source rpm for grub2, patched the code (a first for 
> me: git inside of an rpm), and rebuild the rpm ... and that is the 
> problem.  I tried both the F17 grub2 package grub2-2.0-0.39.fc17 and 
> the F18 package grub2-2.00-15.fc18.  In both cases the rpmbuild -ba 
> failed.
>
> In both cases, there is /usr/bin/grub2-mount that is installed but not 
> packaged, file not found for /usr/shar/man, and file listed twice: 
> /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
>
> What kind of magic dance do I need to do so that I can build the brub2 
> rpms?
Never mind ... just used mock and I am not sure how you get it to build 
"manually"

Gene