-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2012 01:05 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I'll say this. I recently went to read the grub2 documentation and > found this product rather obtuse and complex. As an example trying > to figure out the camparative roles of grub2-mkconfig and > grub2-install. The grub2-mkconfig command processes the templates in /etc/ and the options specified in /etc/default/grub to generate a new grub config file (Normally read from /boot/grub/grub.cfg and symlinked into /etc/ as /etc/grub2.cfg). It produces output on stdout. Redirect it to the file to update it. This is covered in the info manual, section 20 "Invoking grub-mkconfig". Updating the configuration with grub-mkconfig is analogous to editing /boot/grub/grub.conf on prior releases. > One would think that grub2-install wold have to run grub2-mkinstall > but as far as I can see it doesn't. How confusing! The grub2-install command installs the grub2 bootloader components to a drive. It's exactly analogous to grub 1.x's grub-install script and is documented in section 19 of the info manual, "Invoking grub-install". You only need to do that once unless something has overwritten it (like another OS installer) or you replace disks. You might also like to take a look at section 1.3, "Differences from previous versions" and section 3, and 3.1; "Installation" and "Installing GRUB using grub-install". I can't stand the info manual format personally and I'd much rather have a well-written traditional man page but the information is there and quite clear imho. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9rKJ0ACgkQ6YSQoMYUY97nYwCfa2PrhiOTK4gzPBuJ2MQDVHS7 HGEAoKpfw0V21yS2hhSgoia7aBoOgFUh =v0/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
