On Wednesday 16 May 2007 08:25, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Friday 11 May 2007 18:03, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Please have a look at this patch that adds grub-install for EFI and > > > tell me what you think. I have some doubts/comments myself, and I'll > > > reply to my own message to use the patch context. > > > > In my opinion, grub-install is not very useful without grub-setup. > > It saves a pair of things to the user (figuring out which modules are > needed, and what to do with the resulting grub.efi image). From Debian > POV, it's very important so that grub installs can be automated from > debian-installer (without duplicating code, that is).
Providing a rudimentary tool rather harms the user. > > > As I > > haven't reverse-engineered "bless" yet, I don't know how to implement it. > > I guess it just modifies some bytes in a superblock or somewhere, though. > > What is bless needed for? In my environment (Debian GNU/Linux on a qemu > sandbox with EFI firmware), it was not necessary to get grub.efi booting > (although later it had issues accessing filesystems other than the EFI > partition, but I suppose this might be a qemu/firmware bug). http://www.hmug.org/man/8/bless.php Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
