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> > On Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:25:01 PM Michel Catudal wrote: |
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> > > This is nonsense. I have never had a case where it would not boot when I |
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> > have grub correctly installed on the partition. |
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This hasn't happened to you so it obviously means it isn't possible... |
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On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Michel Catudal wrote: |
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> Le 2015-08-27 23:36, Fernando Rodriguez a écrit : |
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> > Install grub to a partition and do something like this: |
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> > su |
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> > cd |
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> > mv /boot/grub grub |
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> > cp -r grub /boot |
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> > rm -r grub |
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> What is your point? same if I do that with grub1, it was even more fun with |
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> windows 98 by deleting win.ini or renaming it "win .ini" |
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> With grub on the partition my bootloader doesn't get wacked and I can restore |
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> the OS if I do a stupid thing like this. |
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You seem to be trying really hard to _not_ get what people are saying to |
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you. |
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The above commands will *not* change anything visibly - they are akin |
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to backing up your grub configuration and later restoring. It ends up at |
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the same location on the filesystem, but this doesn't mean it is at the |
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same location on the block device. |
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That's the problem with installing grub to a partition: all it really does |
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is store (in the PBR) a list of blocks where the grub core.img is located |
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without caring about the filesystem structure on top. This is a _fragile_ |
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set-up. |
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So there. There are technical reasons why this is not a supported setup. |
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No one has removed this option from grub2, so all your complaints about |
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dictatorship are invalid. |
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