Hi Please discard my previous message, which I sent mistaklingly. Le 27/09/2014 17:39, Arbiel Perlacremaz a écrit : > Hi > Le 23/09/2014 18:37, Andrei Borzenkov a écrit : >> 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. > OK > > However this raises two issues > > 1) there is no grub-install parameter ( >>> 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
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