From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub-install --root-directory
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:27:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511252127.14352.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5791f6294514510abf9fa4e556b8d35@penguinppc.org>
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 04:55 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Upon further inspection, this part of grub-install is identical to the
> x86 grub-install behavior. On both architectures,
> grub-install --root-directory /foo
> will install *.mod, *.lst, and the output of grub-mkimage into
> /foo/boot/grub.
>
> I'm open to allowing an override for this, but that's not a PPC-only
> question. I guess a user uses --root-directory when they have booted
> from a CD/floppy and wish to install GRUB onto their hard disk. In that
> case, even if the hard disk's root partition has been manually mounted
> on /mnt, there is no guarantee that the firmware-accessible filesystem
> has also been mounted on /mnt/boot/grub.
>
> Given that, Okuji, what do you think about a --grub-directory switch
> instead of (or in addition to) --root-directory?
Not bad.
Okuji
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-25 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 4:17 grub-install on powermac newworld Mike Small
2005-11-17 6:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-18 10:56 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-11-21 6:00 ` Mike Small
2005-11-23 4:42 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-23 3:55 ` grub-install --root-directory Hollis Blanchard
2005-11-25 20:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
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