Re: How does grub locate grub.cfg

[Roger James]

Bill Marcum <address@hidden> writes:

> 
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0100, Roger James wrote:
> > Help!
> > 
> > What is the algorithm (if any) used by grub2 to locate the grub.cfg
> > file? Are there any hints encoded into the image files by
> > grub-mkimage and grub-setup, for example the --prefix parameter to
> > grub-mkimage and the -root-device parameter passed to grub-setup. I
> > am interesting in finding information on this before embarking on an
> > installation which may end up with two different /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> > files in different paritions on different drives!
> > 
> > I have not be able to find this information in any documentation,
> > and one quick look at the source tree led me to ask here first!
> > 
> As far as I know, it looks in /boot/grub relative to the filesystem
> or chroot where grub-setup is executed.
> 
> > As an aside, is there such a thing as a grub image analyser that can
> > take a grub boot installation/image and print out what it contains?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Roger

Bill,

I have looked again and I am guessing that the --prefix and --root-device
parameters are in somehow encoded into the boot image and then are used to
populate Grub's "prefix" and "root" special environment variables. Can anyone
confirm this?

Roger