Re: What does grub-install do?

[Barry Jackson]

On 16/10/10 16:18, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Saturday 16,October,2010 11:01 PM, Barry Jackson wrote:
> > On 02/10/10 18:46, Goh Lip wrote:
> >
> > > But use "update-grub" instead of "grub-mkconfig"
> > From 1.97 "update-grub" is removed and replaced with "grub-mkconfig"
> >
> > I just thought you should know! :-)
> > Cheers - Barry
>
>
> Barry, I'll just copy a message from Tom H in another mailing list which
> is self-explanatory......
>
>  >> update-grub just runs grub-mkconfig!
>  >>
>  >> # less /usr/sbin/update-grub
>  >> #!/bin/sh -e
>  >> exec grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg "$@"
>  >>
>  >> # less /usr/sbin/update-grub2
>  >> #!/bin/sh -e
>  >> exec update-grub "$@"
>
> Thanks, Tom.
> Regards - Goh Lip

Goh,
Well I just installed a packaged version of 1.98 for Mandriva testing 
before it was pushed into the release, and I reported :-

> > I just hit a snag :-
> >
> > address@hidden baz]# update-grub
> > bash: update-grub: command not found
> > address@hidden baz]#
> >
The reply was :-
{pts/0}% grep -r update-grub BUILD
BUILD/grub-1.98/NEWS:* update-grub is replaced by grub-mkconfig.

So which is correct? The Mandriva package does not install the script 
/usr/sbin/update-grub.

Who is Tom H and which version was he quoting from?

Barry