Re: installing/using grub-legacy

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 23 October 2015 18:02:48 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > On Friday 23 October 2015 17:15:50 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 22 October 2015 01:31:44 David Wright wrote:
> > > > Once you've installed grub with apt, you can then run grub-install to
> > > > actually install the grub configuration itself.
> > >
> > > Isn't that for GRUB-PC not GRUB-legacy?
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > In case I got the names wrong or muddled:
> >
> > Isn't that for GRUB2 not GRUB1?
>
> The oldest Grub I still have installed is 1.99 so I
> did download grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb just to
> check before I posted. Redownloading that, I can see
> grub-legacy_0.97-67_i386.deb/deb://CONTENTS/usr/sbin
> contains   grub-install 11620 Jan 29  2013   which
> is a script including the lines:
>
> # Usage: usage
> # Print the usage.
> usage () {
>     cat <<EOF
> Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
> Install GRUB on your drive.
>
>   -h, --help              print this message and exit
>   -v, --version           print the version information and exit
>   --root-directory=DIR    install GRUB images under the directory DIR
>                           instead of the root directory
>   --grub-shell=FILE       use FILE as the grub shell
>   --no-floppy             do not probe any floppy drive
>   --force-lba             force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy
>                           BIOS
>   --recheck               probe a device map even if it already exists
>
> INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
>
> grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by
> --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the boot
> sector.
>
> Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
> EOF
> }
>
> which looks pretty similar to Grub 2.02's man page:
>
> GRUB-INSTALL(8)     System Administration Utilities     GRUB-INSTALL(8)
> NAME
>        grub-install - install GRUB to a device
> SYNOPSIS
>        grub-install [OPTION...] [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE]
> DESCRIPTION
>        Install GRUB on your drive.
>
> (grub-install is now an ELF.)

Thanks, David. :-)

 As you see, I am busily forgetting it.  But I could/should have done what you 
did. :-(

Lisi