On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 02:18, Seth Goldberg <seth.goldb...@oracle.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  Personally, I'd love to see boot-directory go away also -- I think you
> should be able to specify the exact directory you want without worrying
> about /grub being appended.  Same goes for mkconfig.
>
>  --S
>
>
Yes, that would be best and gives direct control to the user. For now
GRUB_PREFIX denotes that final dir (atleast in the scripts).

- Keshav


>
> Quoting Keshav P R, who wrote the following on Thu, 27 Oct 2011:
>
>  Hi all,
>>       As discussed in #grub irc, I think going the --boot-directory way as
>> phcoder suggested will lead to unnecessary complexity. I would prefer
>> directly mentioning the path to grub_prefix dir, as in case of uefi
>> installs
>> the prefix dir could be anything (/efi/grub, /efi/grub2, /efi/grub_custom,
>> /efi/redhat, /efi/ubuntu etc.). Using --boot-directory in such a case also
>> requires --bootloader-id etc. to be provided.
>>      Proper GRUB_PREFIX is required for video.lst and locale_dir setting
>> in grub.cfg. The patch with --prefix option is at
>> http://pastie.org/2763921. Please give your views.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Keshav
>>
>>
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