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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be |
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> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive |
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> shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copying files to |
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> /boot in the ebuild is completely pointless. |
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Does grub2-install place any stage files where they need to be, or are |
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they no longer needed? I haven't experimented with it yet. |
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Normally grub1 needs to be able to find the stage2 file, and that has |
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to be on a partition the stage1.5 can read (I believe stage1.5 is in |
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the diagnostic cylinder - it only uses the files in /boot during |
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installation). |
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I'm not sure if grub2 completely eliminates the need to have a |
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"normal" partition somewhere, in a situation where raid+lvm+etc are |
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used. |
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Rich |
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