From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EfkXo-0006z1-62 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:51:44 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfkXl-0006yG-Kj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:51:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfkXj-0006x9-Lj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:51:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfkXj-0006wn-5c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:51:39 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfkXi-0000sY-TR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:51:39 -0500 Received: from kotoba.storever.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82623C000E3A for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:40:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from ip6-localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A980D3C000E77 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:40:40 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:27:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20051117041735.GD3883@panix.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511252127.14352.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: grub-install --root-directory X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:51:42 -0000 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