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Re: [2.00] grub-install use on UEFI system?


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [2.00] grub-install use on UEFI system?
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:49:20 +0200
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On 26.09.2012 20:39, Chris Murphy wrote:

> 
> On Sep 26, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 
>> One problem is, where it lands depends on whether it is removable
>> install or not and whether distributor is set or not. How you describe
>> it in single help line? It rather belongs to grub documentation.
> 
> It would be useful in the --help version to note if it's required or not on 
> UEFI systems. Right now it's ambiguous if it's a necessary option or not. If 
> the landing place of grub.efi is variable, merely say "grub.efi installation 
> location depends on destination device and distribution".
> 
> And yes, it rather belongs to grub documentation which is why I find it 
> hilarious a GRUB developer is writing RTFM when well prior to that it should 
> be WTFM. The GRUB manual is a C.F. of mayhem and obscurity as it is, but it's 
> a waste land of nothingness when it comes to UEFI. So RTFM? That's pure GRUB 
> comedy. Maybe it's an inside joke to tell people to go read non-existent 
> documentation.
> 

It's an empty discussion since I have no time to write this doc and
nobody else proposed himself to do it. Until this changes this
discussion has no point.

> Chris Murphy
> 
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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