В Sat, 12 Apr 2014 05:28:04 +0200 (CEST) Fredrik Tolf <[email protected]> пишет:
> Dear list, > > Grub 1 is obviously long dead by now, but one thing I always liked about > it was how transparent much of its low-level workings was. It made it easy > to make it work on systems that were broken in strange ways or where I had > to work under weird circumstances. > > Grub 2, on the other hand, seems to try to go the "user-friendly" way, > with `grub-install' wanting to do all the work for me. This is fine, I > guess, so long as the circumstances aren't too strange for it to work. > Could you describe your configuration where grub-install fails? > What bothers me particularly is the actual installation step itself. > Building a core image and all seems documented enough, but the > `grub-bios-setup' utility isn't even so much as mentioned in the Texinfo > manual, and even less so what it actually does, in detail. Is there any > available information on this anywhere? > grub-bios-setup mostly corresponds to "install" command of grub legacy. It tries to embed core.img into either post-MBR gap or reserved area on partition if filesystem is known to have one. It the worst case it gives you a rope to use file on filesystem directly. In all cases it installs boot block (MBR or PBR) which points to the installed core.img. That's all. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
