Bug#567230: grub-pc: more flexible installation paths

[Robert Millan]

forcemerge 554790 567230
thanks

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:39:57AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.98~20100115-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I recently got bit by the symptoms listed in #564093. Luckily I was able
> to fix it by copying the vmlinuz and initrd.img over to a Windows
> partition and use win32-loader to boot normally then run
> dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc to fix the issue. This Debian system is often
> booted over USB from various systems and sometimes from the internal
> SATA slot on my laptop. I chose /dev/sdb as the install device because
> the Debian hard drive is more often than not booting over USB.
> Unfortunately I was not booting over USB when I upgraded grub-pc, which
> caused the issue listed in #564093. It would be nice if I could specify
> a label or UUID of the /boot partition as the install device and grub
> would resolve that to the right device to install grub onto. This would
> make grub / Debian more useful for roaming USB stick situations.

We're working on that, but it has nothing to do with /boot.

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Robert Millan

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