URL:
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Summary: mingw: bad defaults for grub-install
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: qwertial
Submitted on: Sun 29 Dec 2013 10:02:52 PM GMT
Category: None
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Software Error
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Git master
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Current default option values make grub-install put GRUB files into the
\boot\grub directory at the root of whichever drive letter grub-install
happens to be run from. This may come as an unpleasant surprise to the user:
the installation could fail with a confusing "disk `hostdisk/\\\\?\\Z:' not
found" message (when e.g. Z: is a drive-mapped network share), or the user
could unwittingly perform a cross-disk install.
A good default for --boot-directory could be "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\" (which usually
would be "C:\", so that GRUB puts itself into "C:\grub"), although there may
be better alternatives.
Or perhaps there should be no default on the platform at all, and grub-install
should always demand specifying both --boot-directory and the boot device.
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