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I have two partitions and one is meant to be solely for GRUB2's files. The layout of the filesystem on the first partition should look like:

/
     fonts/
     i386-pc/
     locale/
     grub.cfg
     grubenv

This is what I expect to get when I run grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt /dev/sda. Instead, I get this:

/
    grub/
        fonts/
        i386-pc/
        locale/
        grub.cfg
        grubenv

Why is it placing them in another sub-directory? I did not specify /mnt/grub and I have seen GRUB get installed to folders like /boot/grub2, so I know that it doesn't always make a folder named grub. How do I force it to do what I want it to do?

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  • According to man grub-install, it always creates the subfolder grub...
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Nov 3, 2015 at 19:01
  • @ByteCommander It may say that, but I have seen instances where it uses a different directory. On openSUSE it uses grub2.
    – Melab
    Nov 3, 2015 at 19:22
  • Maybe they use a different version or modification of GRUB over there? I don't know.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Nov 4, 2015 at 11:28

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You can change the directory that concerns you only at build time, by passing a value to --with-grubdir= at configure time:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/configure.ac?h=grub-2.02#n280 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/util/grub-install.c?h=grub-2.02#n339 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/util/grub-install.c?h=grub-2.02#n251

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