Re: Force location of GRUB's boot and core images ?

[Xen]

Pascal Hambourg schreef op 09-04-2017 13:52:
> Le 09/04/2017 à 12:09, Xen a écrit :
> > Pascal Hambourg schreef op 09-04-2017 10:14:
> > > In some cases I would need to force installation of GRUB's boot and
> > > core images into a specific location on the drive instead of letting
> > > grub-install decide automatically.
> > >
> > > For example :
> > > - install the boot image in the first sector of an unformatted 
> > > partition
> > > - install the core image in the second and next sectors of that
> > > partition.
> >
> > Do you mean that the partition being unformatted makes a difference?
>
> Yes. IME, grub-install refuses embedding on a partition with an
> unknown format, e.g. an empty partition. And I need embedding.

Can you tell me what your use case is, out of interest?

The normal reason to refuse installation would be that we cannot know 
what will happen to the partition after it is getting used; ie. without 
a predefined format the installation might get overwritten after the 
partition is put to use.

Of course perhaps your partition is very small and you have no intended 
use for the partition.