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Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI
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Yoshinori K. Okuji |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI |
Date: |
Sat, 19 May 2007 19:21:24 +0200 |
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On Saturday 19 May 2007 11:43, Robert Millan wrote:
> Ok. So, what interface we should provide to the user? I've been told that
> the files shouldn't be in the root of EFI partition, but in a subdirectory
> like /efi/grub. Should this directory be specified by the user? We could
> make it something like:
>
> $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub
> doesn't look like an EFI partition.
> $ mount /dev/sda1 /something
> $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub
>
> OTOH, making it like:
>
> $ sudo grub-install "(hd0)"
> # /efi/grub being implicit here
>
> forces us to mount/umount and opens a can of worms wrt portability.
>
> What do you think?
Not bad. The prefix can be anything. It can be even /boot/grub. On EFI, the
prefix is dynamically passed to GRUB, so the decision is very flexible.
> Perhaps we should look at the refit source and see how bless-like
> functionality is implemented?
When I looked at it at the last time, the documentation only said that you
would write it to somewhere, and execute bless on Mac OS X. Things might have
changed, but I don't know.
Okuji
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, (continued)
Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/15
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/16
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/17
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/18
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/18
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/19
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI,
Yoshinori K. Okuji <=
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/20