On Sunday, January 18, 2015, Truth <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I would like to install grub2 to a USB-stick (e.g. /dev/sdb).
> From the grub.info I've learned that* ... `grub-install' is actually just
> a shell script and the* *real task is done by `grub-mkimage' and
> `grub-setup'.  Therefore, you** may run those commands directly to
> install GRUB, without using **`grub-install'.*
> * (see *chapter 3.1. Installing GRUB using grub-install)
> However, the man-pages for *grub-setup* and *grub-mkimage* are quite
> short and seem to be more helpful for people which already know what to do
> rather than people which want to understand what's going on.
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find any example on how to install grub by just
> using the commands *grub-mkimage* and *grub-setup*.
>

There's one foolproof way: looking in the grub-install script itself and
finding out which commands are invoked. Then you just tweak them so that
you can execute them directly yourself.


>
> In order to learn more about grub I would appreciate your comments and
> examples.
> Thanks in advance ...
>

Although it may serve as a nice learning exercise, I would not rely on
using these scripts by themselves. Rather, I would use grub-install script
for "real" installations; this way, you will be less vulnerable to any
changes which might occur in the underlying architecture.
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