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Re: grub-install --root-directory
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: grub-install --root-directory |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:27:13 +0100 |
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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