On Xen (I'm told), it's possible to assign disk images in the host to
things that are named rather like partitions in the guest (e.g.
/dev/sda1), but that don't have an associated disk (e.g. /dev/sda);
indeed, the latter device is nonexistent. This confuses
grub_util_biosdisk_get_grub_dev.
There'
>
> What's hard about grub-install /dev/sda ?
>
> --
you need a running unix linux ...
Bernhard
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:17:42AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:46:53AM +0200, lode leroy wrote:
> > I think it would be helpful if a command existed to install grub from grub,
> > given a directory /boot/grub/ already present, i.e. Write boot
> > sector+stage1
> >
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:46:53AM +0200, lode leroy wrote:
> I think it would be helpful if a command existed to install grub from grub,
> given a directory /boot/grub/ already present, i.e. Write boot sector+stage1
> to the disk. It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but not-so-easy
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2010/9/10, lode leroy :
> It may be easy to copy files onto the filesystem, but
> not-so-easy
> to create a working native grub.
What's hard about grub-install /dev/sda ?
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> GRUB lacks filesystem write support (intentionally). Therefore, installing
> GRUB from GRUB is not possible. Given that setup command can only
> perform part of this, it is unrealistic to pretend setup command is useful.
> This is why it was removed.
>
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> Robert Millan
I think it would
