On Sunday 30 July 2006 17:12, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to decide which utilities to build for hppa-ipl. Is > there a good place to find documentation on all of: > > grub-mkimage, grub-setup, grub-emu, grub-mkdevicemap, grub-probefs > > Most of these don't even have comments at the top of the .c file saying > what they're for. =)
Asking documentation is a kind of joke at the moment. In principle, what you need are what you expect the user wants to use. The most important utility is grub-install. grub-emu is not obligatory, because it is meant only for developers. Other tools are usually helpers for grub-install. I describe the tools on i386-pc here: grub-install - installs GRUB grub-mkimage - creates a core image file, called from grub-install grub-setup - sets up GRUB to be booted by embedding it into a boot sector grub-mkdevicemap - creates a device map automatically grub-probefs - guesses what filesystem module should be included in a core image On i386-efi, grub-install does not exist. This is because I haven't reverse-engineered "bless" yet. So only grub-setup is implemented, and the user needs to install GRUB "manually". On powerpc-ieee1275, only grub-mkimage is required for grub-install, because grub-install uses some other utilities developed by external projects. But Hollis should know better than me about this. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
