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Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?


From: lode leroy
Subject: Re: future of grub commands setup and install ?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:46:53 +0200

> 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

I think it would be helpful if a command existed to install grub from grub, 
given a directory /boot/grub/ already present, i.e. Write boot sector+stage1 
to the disk. It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but not-so-easy
to create a working native grub.

-- lode



                                          


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