docs: grub-install is no longer a shell script

Since commit cd46aa6cef in 2013, grub-install hasn't been a shell
script. The para doesn't really add that much, especially since it's
the user manual, so just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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Daniel Axtens 2020-10-28 12:57:18 +11:00 committed by Daniel Kiper
parent d7cac52eb2
commit c0c9da5c64

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@ -695,13 +695,6 @@ floppy instead of exposing the USB drive as a hard disk (they call it
This install doesn't conflict with standard install as long as they are in
separate directories.
Note that @command{grub-install} is actually just a shell script and the
real task is done by other tools such as @command{grub-mkimage}. Therefore,
you may run those commands directly to install GRUB, without using
@command{grub-install}. Don't do that, however, unless you are very familiar
with the internals of GRUB. Installing a boot loader on a running OS may be
extremely dangerous.
On EFI systems for fixed disk install you have to mount EFI System Partition.
If you mount it at @file{/boot/efi} then you don't need any special arguments: