On Friday 23 October 2015 18:02:48 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.re...@gmail.com):
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 17:15:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 01:31:44 David Wright wrote:
> > > > Once you've installed grub with apt, you can then run grub-install to
> > > > actually install the grub configuration itself.
> > >
> > > Isn't that for GRUB-PC not GRUB-legacy?
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > In case I got the names wrong or muddled:
> >
> > Isn't that for GRUB2 not GRUB1?
>
> The oldest Grub I still have installed is 1.99 so I
> did download grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb just to
> check before I posted. Redownloading that, I can see
> grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb/deb://CONTENTS/usr/sbin
> contains grub-install 11620 Jan 29 2013 which
> is a script including the lines:
>
> # Usage: usage
> # Print the usage.
> usage () {
> cat <<EOF
> Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
> Install GRUB on your drive.
>
> -h, --help print this message and exit
> -v, --version print the version information and exit
> --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR
> instead of the root directory
> --grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell
> --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive
> --force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy
> BIOS
> --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists
>
> INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
>
> grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by
> --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot
> sector.
>
> Report bugs to <bug-g...@gnu.org>.
> EOF
> }
>
> which looks pretty similar to Grub 2.02's man page:
>
> GRUB-INSTALL(8) System Administration Utilities GRUB-INSTALL(8)
> NAME
> grub-install - install GRUB to a device
> SYNOPSIS
> grub-install [OPTION...] [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE]
> DESCRIPTION
> Install GRUB on your drive.
>
> (grub-install is now an ELF.)
Thanks, David. :-)
As you see, I am busily forgetting it. But I could/should have done what you
did. :-(
Lisi
