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[PATCH v2 01/18] docs/grub: grub-install is no longer a shell script
From: |
Daniel Axtens |
Subject: |
[PATCH v2 01/18] docs/grub: grub-install is no longer a shell script |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:57:18 +1100 |
Since commit cd46aa6cefab in 2013, grub-install hasn't been a shell
script. The para doesn't really add that much, especially since it's
the user manual, so just drop it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
---
docs/grub.texi | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index 325738803ca9..6cbd753d12fd 100644
--- a/docs/grub.texi
+++ b/docs/grub.texi
@@ -695,13 +695,6 @@ floppy instead of exposing the USB drive as a hard disk
(they call it
This install doesn't conflict with standard install as long as they are in
separate directories.
-Note that @command{grub-install} is actually just a shell script and the
-real task is done by other tools such as @command{grub-mkimage}. Therefore,
-you may run those commands directly to install GRUB, without using
-@command{grub-install}. Don't do that, however, unless you are very familiar
-with the internals of GRUB. Installing a boot loader on a running OS may be
-extremely dangerous.
-
On EFI systems for fixed disk install you have to mount EFI System Partition.
If you mount it at @file{/boot/efi} then you don't need any special arguments:
--
2.25.1
- [PATCH v2 00/18] Verify appended signatures from grub, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 01/18] docs/grub: grub-install is no longer a shell script,
Daniel Axtens <=
- [PATCH v2 02/18] docs/grub: --pubkey has been supported for some time, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 03/18] dl: provide a fake grub_dl_set_persistent for the emu target, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 04/18] verifiers: factor unsafe module handling out of shim_lock, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 05/18] pgp: factor out rsa_pad, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 06/18] crypto: move storage for grub_crypto_pk_* to crypto.c, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 07/18] posix_wrap: tweaks in preparation for libtasn1, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 09/18] libtasn1: disable code not needed in grub, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 08/18] libtasn1: import libtasn1-4.16.0, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 10/18] libtasn1: changes for grub compatibility, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27
- [PATCH v2 11/18] libtasn1: compile into asn1 module, Daniel Axtens, 2020/10/27