From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1S6vGC-0008Pf-1R for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:20 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6vG8-0008KY-Tq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6vG7-0004TZ-AZ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:16 -0400 Received: from che.mayfirst.org ([209.234.253.108]:39385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6vG7-0004TD-6B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.13.75] (lair.fifthhorseman.net [108.58.6.98]) by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB52AF970 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4F5D6338.3020902@fifthhorseman.net> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:45:12 -0400 From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120125 Icedove/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: what is the install_device argument for grub-mknetdir Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 209.234.253.108 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:45:18 -0000 according to the man page and grub-mknetdir --help, the usage is: grub-mknetdir [OPTION] install_device But it's not clear what the install_device should refer to, since you're really just preparing a directory -- there's no device needed, afaict. Can someone explain the need for this argument more clearly? Or give an example of what should go there? Thanks, --dkg