Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 09/09/10 14:14, Robert Millan wrote:
> 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.
>
>    
OTOH it should be realistic to port GRUB to any OS having GCC and decent 
binutils, I hope Bluebottle is included (I don't have a lot of 
experience with it even though it';s developped at my university).
Also it would be a good idea to distribute a free kernel (e.g. 
linux-libre) with a small initramfs with busybox, few useless tools and 
GRUB. This would be esily loadable from GRUB regardless of media and 
will be able to perform all GRUB-related tasks except compiling.


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko