[Bug 1333801] Re: create a manpage for grub-install
Phillip Susi
psusi at ubuntu.com
Tue Jun 24 20:18:07 UTC 2014
Section 4.4: "Bios Installation" of the grub manual ( info ) documents
the difference between MBR and GPT bios booting, and the need for the
bios_grub flag.
Section 4.1 "Installing GRUB using grub-install" explains EFI.
I'm not sure what environment variables you are talking about, could you
explain?
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
create a manpage for grub-install
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
The manpage of grub-install 2.02~beta2-9 is not yet ready to provide
the information which is necessary to use the program, assuming that
one should be able to work with the program after reading the manpage
(`info grub-install` provides some more information but it's still
rather incomplete). The review should include the resolution of the
following issues:
* There's a difference between installing on a HDD with a msdos partition table and a GPT -> document or add hint that there's none (in case I experienced errornous error messages)
* There's a different between BIOS and EFI installation -> document
* Document all arguments which are supported for legacy reasons (some of them do something, e.g. `--root-directory` break the installation) (see also https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/246173)
* some arguments seem to require environment variables to be set (maybe only legacy arguments) -> document
* some arguments seem to require flags on partitions to be set, e.g. `bios_boot` -> document
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