From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:28:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C89D001.5040108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=px_gZgY-o3NVBNwj7UEKuNEFtrMT5Jud9+tno@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/09/10 14:14, Robert Millan wrote:
> 2010/9/9, Treutwein Bernhard<Bernhard.Treutwein@verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de>:
>
>> according to the wiki the commands install& setup are "unecessary".
>>
>> I do consider setup (which itself uses install) as "desirable" at least.
>>
> 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.
>
>
OTOH it should be realistic to port GRUB to any OS having GCC and decent
binutils, I hope Bluebottle is included (I don't have a lot of
experience with it even though it';s developped at my university).
Also it would be a good idea to distribute a free kernel (e.g.
linux-libre) with a small initramfs with busybox, few useless tools and
GRUB. This would be esily loadable from GRUB regardless of media and
will be able to perform all GRUB-related tasks except compiling.
--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 2:42 LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 5:09 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 5:24 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 8:34 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:47 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 22:52 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:00 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 23:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:46 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 1:33 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-09 6:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 8:36 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:46 ` 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 [this message]
2010-09-10 6:38 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-08 15:28 ` LiveCD bootloader Andreas Born
2010-09-08 15:46 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-08 16:31 ` GRUB2 fails when booting from CD Andreas Born
2010-09-26 20:22 ` Andreas Born
2010-09-27 15:17 ` Phillip Susi
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[not found] ` <4CA219B9.3020209@googlemail.com>
[not found] ` <4CA22FC6.9000701@cfl.rr.com>
2010-09-28 20:19 ` Andreas Born
2010-12-25 20:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-12-27 12:30 ` Andreas Born
2011-01-04 14:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 22:48 ` LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-10 7:46 future of grub commands setup and install ? lode leroy
2010-09-10 11:22 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-10 15:01 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-10 14:17 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-10 14:27 ` Colin Watson
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