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?
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