NAME
grub-install - install GRUB on your drive
SYNOPSIS
grub-install [OPTION] install_device
DESCRIPTION
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 | |
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.
The grub source distribution carries this script to ease the installation of grub as a boot loader. In Suse Linux however, grub installation is much better handled by Yast; use of this script is generally discouraged and therefore unsupported. Consequently, the script has been renamed to grub-install.unsupported.
In order to (re-)install grub for the currently running system, simply use Yast. For an installation aiming at a differing system, the crafting of an appropriate device.map and grub shell script is strongly advised, e.g. "grub --batch --device-map=target-device.map < target-grub.conf"
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at your site, the command
| info grub-install | |
