В Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:11:21 +0200 Arbiel Perlacremaz <arbiel.perlacre...@gmx.fr> пишет:
> Having the grub directory on the external device is not what I'm looking > for. > > I indeed use several external devices and I've installed GRUB on each of > them so that it is always available, whatsoever my configuration is. To > avoid confusion when updating GRUB, all my fstab files mount a unique > directory, always the same, on /boot/grub. This is the reason why I want > GRUB on my hard drive. > Well, use grub-mkimage then; you are completely free in adding your own embedded config file. > > Le 23/09/2014 01:09, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a écrit : > > On 22.09.2014 22:49, Arbiel Perlacremaz wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> A way I'm using to avoid any Window's reinstallation to overwrite GRUB > >> in a multiboot environment is to install the later on the MBR of a USB > >> key. That way, when booting with no key pluged, the PC boots into > >> Windows and when booting with the key pluged, the PC boots according to > >> the choice of the user in the grub menu's. > >> > >> I do locate the grub.cfg file in a partition of the internal hard drive. > >> In such a situation, grub-install embeddes a config file which reads > >> something like > >> > >> search.fs_uuid 367C9BBD7C9B75F9 root hd0,msdos1 > >> set prefix=($root)'/' > >> > >> This is great. > >> > >> However, any undesired modification by any piece of software of the > >> partition's uuid will prevent GRUB to find it and lead to a boot > >> failure. As the Windows partition is less prone to such modifications as > >> Linux partitions, I do locate the grub.cfg file in that Windows > >> partition. However it would be more straightforward to locate the file > >> into a Linux partition, and to have grub search this partition by its > >> label. > >> > >> How could this be done ? If this can't presently be done, can it be > >> included in a future grub release ? > > use --boot-directory to place all files on usb stick and make it load > > any other grub.cfg you might want. > >> Regards > >> > >> Arbiel > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Grub-devel mailing list > >> Grub-devel@gnu.org > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
