Re: Force location of GRUB's boot and core images ?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

09.04.2017 11:14, Pascal Hambourg пишет:
> Hello,
> 
> In some cases I would need to force installation of GRUB's boot and core
> images into a specific location on the drive instead of letting
> grub-install decide automatically.
> 
> For example :
> - install the boot image in the first sector of an unformatted partition
> - install the core image in the second and next sectors of that partition.
> 
> Is this possible through any undocumented options or internal commands ?
> 

No. The most straightforward workaround is to create loop device on top
of partition and create partition table inside with at least one
partition and suitable post-MBR gap. Then you will be able to install on
/dev/loopX. You may zap partition table afterwards to avoid confusion.

Technical reason is that writing (or at least computing actual on-disk
location) of core.img is performed by either partlabel-specific or
filesystem-specific code, so if you have neither then there is no code
to do it.

> At the moment the only way that approaches what I need is tu use a
> partition type such as btrfs which supports embedding, but this is
> overkill as it requires btrfs-tools to be installed and a ridiculously
> huge minimal partition size.
> 
> (Please CC me as I have limited access to the list)
> 
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