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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
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On Monday 04 October 2004 13:45, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > In that model, appendnote would be a tool compiled and installed on
> > the target. The alternative is to create grubof and grubof.chrp at
> > compile time, install both on the target, and let grub-setup point
> > OF at one or the other.
>
> Both are fine for me.  But the advantage of having grubof and
> grubof.chrp is that distributions just need one package for multiple
> platforms.

Basically the build process of GRUB should provide as many variants as 
possible. Note that some users want to install GRUB for a different 
platform, like installing GRUB into a CHRP machine on iMac.

Okuji