Re: Bug#579519: grub-installer - Overwrites bootloaders on different device

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> Huh?  Don't use grub-setup - use grub-install.  Calling grub-setup
> directly is strictly for experts and is not generally supported. 

Interesting.  How is the non expert user supposed to know this? 
Judging by the manual pages, I would have guessed the opposite:


$ man grub-setup 
GRUB-SETUP(8)           System Administration Utilities          GRUB-SETUP(8)

NAME
       grub-setup - manual page for grub-setup (GRUB) 1.98+20100527-2

SYNOPSIS
       grub-setup [OPTION]... DEVICE

DESCRIPTION
       Set  up images to boot from DEVICE.  DEVICE must be a GRUB device (e.g.
       `(hd0,1)').

[..]


$ man grub-install
GRUB-MKRESCUE(1)                 User Commands                GRUB-MKRESCUE(1)

NAME
       grub-mkrescue    -    manual   page   for   grub-mkrescue   (GNU   GRUB
       1.98+20100527-2)

SYNOPSIS
       grub-mkrescue [OPTION] SOURCE...

DESCRIPTION
       Make GRUB rescue image.

[..]



Bjørn