On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be > used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive > shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copying files to > /boot in the ebuild is completely pointless.
Does grub2-install place any stage files where they need to be, or are they no longer needed? I haven't experimented with it yet. Normally grub1 needs to be able to find the stage2 file, and that has to be on a partition the stage1.5 can read (I believe stage1.5 is in the diagnostic cylinder - it only uses the files in /boot during installation). I'm not sure if grub2 completely eliminates the need to have a "normal" partition somewhere, in a situation where raid+lvm+etc are used. Rich
