grub-install

["Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>]

I have mostly implemented grub-install as a shell script. I just copied it 
from GRUB Legacy then adapted it to GRUB 2. This script is much simpler in 
GRUB 2, because grub-setup handles most things.

It has one remaining issue, and I'm not sure what is appropriate for this.  
Since the core image in GRUB 2 is generated dynamically, it is necessary to 
specify what modules should be included in it. When the user uses 
grub-install, I believe that they should be automatically determined.

For now, pc.mod and _chain.mod are hardcoded. I think these are good enough 
for PC. It might be better to add _linux.mod on GNU/Linux, though. I'm not 
sure.

The issue is how to determine a filesystem module which is needed to load more 
modules. I think there are three ways:

1. Shell scripting. Probably it is possible to write a shell function which 
detects a filesystem by using df, mount, etc. I do not like this approach 
very much, because the installation environment can be very minimalistic 
(suppose when you install an OS using a floppy), and the behaviors of 
commands are sometimes not clever enough.

2. Adding an option into grub-mkimage to add a filesystem module 
automatically, depending on the filesystem of a grub directory. This is not  
bad, but this makes grub-mkimage a bit complex.

3. Adding a new utility which detects an appropriate filesystem module for a 
given directory. This is not bad, but this sounds a bit overkill.

What do you think?

Okuji