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Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 14:14:31 +0200

2010/9/9, Treutwein Bernhard <address@hidden>:
> according to the wiki the commands install & setup are "unecessary".
>
> I do consider setup (which itself uses install) as "desirable" at least.

GRUB lacks filesystem write support (intentionally).  Therefore, installing
GRUB from GRUB is not possible.  Given that setup command can only
perform part of this, it is unrealistic to pretend setup command is useful.
This is why it was removed.

-- 
Robert Millan



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