Is it supposed to be possible to run grub-install from the LiveCD with SELinux on?

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 05:23:50 UTC 2007


On 3/31/07, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> If you do that, and if you are using selinux, then after such move
> you have to run 'fixfiles' on target directories.
>
> Security is always PITA and a bunch of tradeoffs.  If some
> particular tradeoffs are right for you it is only for you to tell.
> If you want avoid hassles just for an installation you can always
> run with 'selinux=0' and do 'fixfiles' globally once you are done
> and you plan to turn on selinux.

Yes ... well, I guess what I am wondering is why the command
grub-install is doing that and whether it should be.

/Mike




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