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Re: grub-install on unmounted partitions


From: Colin Watson
Subject: Re: grub-install on unmounted partitions
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:40:18 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17:10AM +0400, Дмитрий Ильин wrote:
> If you are talking about grub2 (not legacy)
> 
> Yes, usually disk must be mounted because grub-install copies grub files to 
> --root-directory

Teresa asked specifically about "the device", presumably the device that
you pass to grub-install.  That's different from --root-directory, and
(on BIOS systems) is only passed to grub-setup.  It makes no difference
to grub-setup whether the device is mounted anywhere or not.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden



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