From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1XXu6T-0005hR-TB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:40:09 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXu6N-0005cs-RX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:40:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXu6I-0000VV-Lx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:40:03 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:65388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXu6I-0000Tk-CR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:39:58 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.13] ([31.34.87.55]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Ma1Mt-1XqFlQ1Rex-00Lqf6; Sat, 27 Sep 2014 17:39:51 +0200 Message-ID: <5426DA46.1090902@gmx.fr> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 17:39:50 +0200 From: Arbiel Perlacremaz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrei Borzenkov , The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Having the configuration file embedded into core.img look for the grub partition by its label References: <54208B55.7060100@gmx.fr> <5420AC43.7060303@gmail.com> <54212B29.80907@gmx.fr> <20140923203734.1bf0eaca@opensuse.site> In-Reply-To: <20140923203734.1bf0eaca@opensuse.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:siFqa2w+uzDhajImj/YCWmAPuP0PKIwHxDG0s5bz0mUBh3W0Amt RVOu8Z0p29nIgJiKKWJJGPVtFdvR4RxS7FnWMvd/Vu23omVbBBoe8z/qjUc/sm/uXGwZlHC 1PLQl8FKcBGeYq9an7sOJMGzXO4UehVzSmu0O6f3FZiAwfwEmD4O2EBFasvp6UCGyu9xvCr EvWgUqkATlGYnu4BQdD+A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.19 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: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 15:40:09 -0000 Hi Le 23/09/2014 18:37, Andrei Borzenkov a écrit : > В Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:11:21 +0200 > Arbiel Perlacremaz пишет: > >> Having the grub directory on the external device is not what I'm looking >> for. >> >> I indeed use several external devices and I've installed GRUB on each of >> them so that it is always available, whatsoever my configuration is. To >> avoid confusion when updating GRUB, all my fstab files mount a unique >> directory, always the same, on /boot/grub. This is the reason why I want >> GRUB on my hard drive. >> > Well, use grub-mkimage then; you are completely free in adding your own > embedded config file. OK However this raises two issues 1) there is no grub-install parameter ( >> Le 23/09/2014 01:09, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a écrit : >>> On 22.09.2014 22:49, Arbiel Perlacremaz wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> A way I'm using to avoid any Window's reinstallation to overwrite GRUB >>>> in a multiboot environment is to install the later on the MBR of a USB >>>> key. That way, when booting with no key pluged, the PC boots into >>>> Windows and when booting with the key pluged, the PC boots according to >>>> the choice of the user in the grub menu's. >>>> >>>> I do locate the grub.cfg file in a partition of the internal hard drive. >>>> In such a situation, grub-install embeddes a config file which reads >>>> something like >>>> >>>> search.fs_uuid 367C9BBD7C9B75F9 root hd0,msdos1 >>>> set prefix=($root)'/' >>>> >>>> This is great. >>>> >>>> However, any undesired modification by any piece of software of the >>>> partition's uuid will prevent GRUB to find it and lead to a boot >>>> failure. As the Windows partition is less prone to such modifications as >>>> Linux partitions, I do locate the grub.cfg file in that Windows >>>> partition. However it would be more straightforward to locate the file >>>> into a Linux partition, and to have grub search this partition by its label. >>>> >>>> How could this be done ? If this can't presently be done, can it be >>>> included in a future grub release ? >>> use --boot-directory to place all files on usb stick and make it load >>> any other grub.cfg you might want. >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Arbiel >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Grub-devel mailing list >>>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel