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From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 01:00:11 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] docs/grub: 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.
(adjust docs: s/grub/grub2)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
---
docs/grub.texi | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/grub.texi b/docs/grub.texi
index 61c92a1e0..34517e674 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{grub2-install} is actually just a shell script and the
-real task is done by other tools such as @command{grub2-mkimage}. Therefore,
-you may run those commands directly to install GRUB, without using
-@command{grub2-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: