On Saturday 19 May 2007 11:43, Robert Millan wrote: > Ok. So, what interface we should provide to the user? I've been told that > the files shouldn't be in the root of EFI partition, but in a subdirectory > like /efi/grub. Should this directory be specified by the user? We could > make it something like: > > $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub > doesn't look like an EFI partition. > $ mount /dev/sda1 /something > $ sudo grub-install /something/efi/grub > > OTOH, making it like: > > $ sudo grub-install "(hd0)" > # /efi/grub being implicit here > > forces us to mount/umount and opens a can of worms wrt portability. > > What do you think?
Not bad. The prefix can be anything. It can be even /boot/grub. On EFI, the prefix is dynamically passed to GRUB, so the decision is very flexible. > Perhaps we should look at the refit source and see how bless-like > functionality is implemented? When I looked at it at the last time, the documentation only said that you would write it to somewhere, and execute bless on Mac OS X. Things might have changed, but I don't know. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
