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Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI |
Date: |
Sun, 20 May 2007 09:19:58 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:21:24PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007 11:43, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Ok. So, what interface we should provide to the user? I've been told that
> > the files shouldn't be in the root of EFI partition, but in a subdirectory
> > like /efi/grub. Should this directory be specified by the user? We could
> > make it something like:
> >
> > $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub
> > doesn't look like an EFI partition.
> > $ mount /dev/sda1 /something
> > $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub
> >
> > OTOH, making it like:
> >
> > $ sudo grub-install "(hd0)"
> > # /efi/grub being implicit here
> >
> > forces us to mount/umount and opens a can of worms wrt portability.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Not bad. The prefix can be anything. It can be even /boot/grub. On EFI, the
> prefix is dynamically passed to GRUB, so the decision is very flexible.
You mean the first one? Note that in the current version (i.e. no arguments),
--root-directory still works, so it's still possible to override this path.
> > Perhaps we should look at the refit source and see how bless-like
> > functionality is implemented?
>
> When I looked at it at the last time, the documentation only said that you
> would write it to somewhere, and execute bless on Mac OS X. Things might have
> changed, but I don't know.
I'll have a look later..
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- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, (continued)
Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/15
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/16
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/17
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/18
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/18
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Robert Millan, 2007/05/19
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2007/05/19
- Re: [PATCH] grub-install for EFI,
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