Grub v2 manual

The pages contributed here (FranklinPiat/*) were an attempt to write some documentation for Grub2. This documentation isn't updated anymore (since grub2-1.96+20080203 approximately)

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The list of modules is specified with [MODULES]...

(8)GRUB-MKIMAGE - Make a bootable image of GRUB.

SYNOPSIS

grub-mkimage [OPTION]... [MODULES]

DESCRIPTION

grub-mkimage makes a bootable image of GRUB, compressed with lzo [usually named core.img]. That image is typically copied on the first sectors of the disk.

grub-mkimage is usually invoked by (8)grub-install.

-d, --directory=DIR

Use images and modules under DIR [default=/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ or similar, depending on cpu and platform].

-m, --memdisk=FILE Embed FILE as a memdisk image.

Specifies a .tar file (not compressed) that should be included in the core.img. Therefore you can include arbitrary file in core.img (especially grub.cfg file, but any small file can be included).

-p, --prefix=DIR

Set grub_prefix directory [default=/boot/grub or (/grub on NetBSD and OpenBSD)]

-o, --output=FILE

Output a generated image to FILE [default=stdout]

-h, --help

Print this message and exit

-V, --version

Print the version information and exit

-v, --verbose

Print verbose messages.

AUTHOR

Program Written by Yoshinori K. Okuji, Robert Millan, Marco Gerards and others (see AUTHORS file).

Manpage Written by Franklin Piat.

BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

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