hansbkk@gmail.com hansbkk@gmail.com wrote:
Is this an intended behavior change for grub-install, that --boot-directory is now supposed to specify the immediate parent of where I want the /grub folder to go?
I hope not, because having a canonical /boot/grub location seems to be helpful in troubleshooting - letting the user put it anywhere s/he likes seems an unnecessary complication. . .
The --boot-directory argument is optional; if you don't specify it, grub-install uses /boot.
The grub-install(8) manual page says:
--boot-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory
You could have used chroot and then run grub-install without specifying --boot-directory if you wanted.
this is Linux. There are choices. Comamnds have options to cater for a wide variety of needs and preferences. You don't have to use this option if you don't want to. It's documented precisely in the manual page.