Bug 745183

Summary:	please add --root-directory to usage of grub2-install
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mike Khusid <mkhusid>
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	dennis, jofernan, mads, pjones
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Description Mike Khusid 2011-10-11 15:08:54 UTC

Description of problem:
grub2-install --help doesn't list --root-directory as a valid usage. It looks like the code does allow for this option.

This option is very valuable when recovering grub2 after another OS install, e.g. described here: http://ulyssesonline.com/2010/09/20/recover-grub2-after-windows-install/

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grub2-1.99-7.fc16

Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2011-11-11 19:14:11 UTC

--root-directory=/mnt/ is accepted for compatibility but is undocumented and not recommended.

Instead --boot-directory=/mnt/boot should be used. Documenting this feature would just add confusion.