From: Daniel Axtens Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:57:18 +0000 (+1100) Subject: docs: grub-install is no longer a shell script X-Git-Tag: grub-2.06-rc1~190 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c0c9da5c64a56995a819f1563f9b6a384191f659;p=thirdparty%2Fgrub.git docs: grub-install is no longer a shell script Since commit cd46aa6cefab in 2013, grub-install hasn't been a shell script. The para doesn't really add that much, especially since it's the user manual, so just drop it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper --- diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi index 37f7ce7da..94ac2eac9 100644 --- a/docs/grub.texi +++ b/docs/grub.texi @@ -695,13 +695,6 @@ floppy instead of exposing the USB drive as a hard disk (they call it This install doesn't conflict with standard install as long as they are in separate directories. -Note that @command{grub-install} is actually just a shell script and the -real task is done by other tools such as @command{grub-mkimage}. Therefore, -you may run those commands directly to install GRUB, without using -@command{grub-install}. Don't do that, however, unless you are very familiar -with the internals of GRUB. Installing a boot loader on a running OS may be -extremely dangerous. - On EFI systems for fixed disk install you have to mount EFI System Partition. If you mount it at @file{/boot/efi} then you don't need any special arguments: