Re: Add prefix option to grub-mkconfig

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi,

 Personally, I'd love to see boot-directory go away also -- I think you should 
be able to specify the exact directory you want without worrying about /grub 
being appended.  Same goes for mkconfig.

  --S

Quoting Keshav P R, who wrote the following on Thu, 27 Oct 2011:

> Hi all,
>        As discussed in #grub irc, I think going the --boot-directory way as
> phcoder suggested will lead to unnecessary complexity. I would prefer
> directly mentioning the path to grub_prefix dir, as in case of uefi installs
> the prefix dir could be anything (/efi/grub, /efi/grub2, /efi/grub_custom,
> /efi/redhat, /efi/ubuntu etc.). Using --boot-directory in such a case also
> requires --bootloader-id etc. to be provided.
>       Proper GRUB_PREFIX is required for video.lst and locale_dir setting
> in grub.cfg. The patch with --prefix option is at
> http://pastie.org/2763921. Please give your views.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav