Re: Force location of GRUB's boot and core images ?

[Pascal Hambourg]

Le 09/04/2017 à 12:09, Xen a écrit :
> Pascal Hambourg schreef op 09-04-2017 10:14:
> > In some cases I would need to force installation of GRUB's boot and
> > core images into a specific location on the drive instead of letting
> > grub-install decide automatically.
> >
> > For example :
> > - install the boot image in the first sector of an unformatted partition
> > - install the core image in the second and next sectors of that
> > partition.
>
> Do you mean that the partition being unformatted makes a difference?

Yes. IME, grub-install refuses embedding on a partition with an unknown 
format, e.g. an empty partition. And I need embedding.