On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 13:06, Felix Zielcke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 12:58 +0200 schrieb Wojtek SWIATEK: > > > > > I have never used grub-install (only grub in much simpler > > configurations) and I will give it a try. > > Is there a way to instruct grub-install to use the configuration from > > another place than the current /boot/grub/grub.conf? In my case I > > would like it to use the info at /mnt/boot/grub/grub.conf as they > > cover the future setup (boot from a single internal drive). Maybe > > chroot to /mnt would be a way to go? (in that case /boot would indeed > > refer to the future /boot and grub-install could now take its install > > info from there) > > > grub.conf isn't read by grub-install or the grub shell. > But device.map is. > You can use grub-install --root-directory=/mnt so everything > under /mnt/boot/grub is used instead of /boot/grub > Just a note to say thaks - it worked very well on teh forst shot. I did a # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/hda after making sure that hd0 in device.map indeed points to /dev/hda which would become (and now became) the first and only disk in the system. Thanks again for the help, Wojtek
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