On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 09:41:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
2) Should it be considered a bug that grub files are written when boot
is not mounted.
A file can be written to any directory, mounted or not. No bug here.
Seems like if the routine notices (which it does)
that those files are absent, should there not be further code to
check for boot being mounted?
I imagine GRUB could not put any files in /boot/grub because it did not
exist at the time the attempted install took place. If it had existed
the files would have appeared there. Directories are for putting files
in. Why should the package care whether it is mounted? You care, of
course - so you need to do something about it.
It seems it should not be possible for `/boot/grub' to be created
on an empty boot. Not during an update.
Not unless update-grub is run. Then /boot/grub will be created and
grub.cfg put in it.