[bug #36132] Requires write access outside of /boot

[Tamus Royce]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36132>

                 Summary: Requires write access outside of /boot
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: tamusjroyce
            Submitted on: Mon 09 Apr 2012 02:03:08 AM GMT
                Category: Installation
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: TamusJRoyce
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Bazaar - trunk
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Originally, Grub (now Grub-Legacy) did not require configuration files to
reside outside of /boot.

1.  The default installation location of configuration files should be in
/boot/grub2 (like Grub-Legacy using /boot/grub).

2.  It should use the current /etc/grub2 if /boot/grub2 is not found for
backwards compatibility.

3.  On installation, /etc/grub2/... should be copied over to /boot/grub2 if it
exists (or until /etc/grub2 is depricated, if that happens).

This makes distributions which use read-only file systems, such as TinyCore,
possible to use grub2.

NOTE:  This issue is only trying to introduce compatibility where Grub-Legacy
works and Grub2 is incompatible.




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