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Re: grub-install on unmounted partitions
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Colin Watson |
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Re: grub-install on unmounted partitions |
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Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:40:18 +0100 |
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17:10AM +0400, Дмитрий Ильин wrote:
> If you are talking about grub2 (not legacy)
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> Yes, usually disk must be mounted because grub-install copies grub files to
> --root-directory
Teresa asked specifically about "the device", presumably the device that
you pass to grub-install. That's different from --root-directory, and
(on BIOS systems) is only passed to grub-setup. It makes no difference
to grub-setup whether the device is mounted anywhere or not.
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Colin Watson address@hidden