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. > In using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I don't know which grub version I'm presently using, as the -v parameter don't mean "print the version information" any longer, but "print verbose messages". In reviewing grub-install parameters, I did not find any one allowing for the incorporating a user-generated grub image. Nor don't I know how to use grub-mkimage to generate such an image. However, I tried the --force-file-id parameter and as a result of this, I got what I am looking for.
bootinfoscript outputs the following ============================= Boot Info Summary: =============================== => Windows 7/8/2012 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda. => Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 1 of the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks for / and uses an embedded config file: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- search.file /uuid/2nk2euatog5bddbaf30io4hb root hd0,msdos2 set prefix=($root)'/' It's even better than what I expected as a user probably never will change the names of this grub-install generated directory and file . >> Le 23/09/2014 01:09, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko a écrit : >>> On 22.09.2014 22:49, Arbiel Perlacremaz wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> A way I'm using to avoid any Window's reinstallation to overwrite GRUB >>>> in a multiboot environment is to install the later on the MBR of a USB >>>> key. That way, when booting with no key pluged, the PC boots into >>>> Windows and when booting with the key pluged, the PC boots according to >>>> the choice of the user in the grub menu's. >>>> >>>> I do locate the grub.cfg file in a partition of the internal hard drive. >>>> In such a situation, grub-install embeddes a config file which reads >>>> something like >>>> >>>> search.fs_uuid 367C9BBD7C9B75F9 root hd0,msdos1 >>>> set prefix=($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