Re: GRUB documentation

[Gregg Levine]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Jeremy Dawson <address@hidden> 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.
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