From: lode leroy <lode_leroy@hotmail.com>
To: <grub-devel@gnu.org>, <rmh@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:46:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <COL109-W249AB66129C3295EEE2DA5FF740@phx.gbl> (raw)
> GRUB lacks filesystem write support (intentionally). Therefore, installing
> GRUB from GRUB is not possible. Given that setup command can only
> perform part of this, it is unrealistic to pretend setup command is useful.
> This is why it was removed.
>
> --
> Robert Millan
I think it would be helpful if a command existed to install grub from grub,
given a directory /boot/grub/ already present, i.e. Write boot sector+stage1
to the disk. It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but not-so-easy
to create a working native grub.
-- lode
next reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-10 7:46 lode leroy [this message]
2010-09-10 11:22 ` future of grub commands setup and install ? Robert Millan
2010-09-10 15:01 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-10 14:17 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-10 14:27 ` Colin Watson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-08 22:46 LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 7:53 ` future of grub commands setup and install ? Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-09 12:14 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-10 6:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-10 6:38 ` Treutwein Bernhard
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