Re: grub-install on powermac newworld

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 07:05 am, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > 1. The path to ofpathname is hard-coded in the script as /usr/sbin.
> > For me running on debian that doesn't seem right.  Since it's not
> > currently part of a package, I'd probably end up putting it in
> > /usr/local/sbin instead.  Maybe its presence and location should be
> > detected by configure?
>
> Perhaps. I know people were thinking about getting ofpathname into
> Debian proper, but I suspect I need to poke some people about that.

Mike is right. We should add --with-ofpathname and reasonable detection code 
to configure. 

> What made you expect --root-directory was a valid option? Other packages
> use that option? Which?

Please look at grub-install for PC. We should keep grub-install as compatible 
as possible among various architectures.

Okuji