On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Jeremy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear GRUB maintainers, > > In the man page I have it says > > grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by > --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot > sector. > > (the man page version is grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97) April 2006 ) > > In the info pages (at > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall > > it says > > You need to run grub-install like this: > > # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda > > This would seem to suggest that images get installed in /boot/boot . Is > this they way it is meant to be ? > > Thanks, > > Jeremy Dawson > > PS I think one of my main difficulties with the GRUB documentation (which > could be easily fixed) is that the word "install" is used for two totally > different things, and is often ambiguous > > Thus, in the man page > > grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by > --root-directory, ...(A) > > and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot sector. ...(B) > > > But in the info pages > (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installation.html#Installation) > > In order to install GRUB as your boot loader, you need to first install the > GRUB system and utilities under your UNIX-like operating system (see > Obtaining and Building GRUB > <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Obtaining-and-Building-GRUB.html#Obtaining-and-Building-GRUB>). > You can do this either from the source tarball, or as a package for your OS. > > (this is (A), as I understand it) > > After you have done that, you need to install the boot loader on a drive > (floppy or hard disk) > > (this is (B), as I understand it) > > But then it goes on to say > There are two ways of doing that - either using the utility grub-install > (see Invoking grub-install > <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Invoking-grub_002dinstall.html#Invoking-grub_002dinstall>) > on a UNIX-like OS > > but according to the man page, grub-install does (A) and (B) > > regards, > > Jeremy Dawson >
Hello! GRUB Legacy is largely depreciated. However the boot files go into /boot/grub and that can also contain a menu. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
