Re: temporarily relocated grub install?

[Thierry Laronde]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:55:13AM -0400, J. Lasser wrote:
> Hello,

Hello,

> 
> In this case, I was able to install to the ramdisk manually (I'm
> remembering right now, as my notes aren't in front of me), and then at
> first boot into grub, re-install it, then edit the config file. While
> possible to do, this is a process that is difficult to automate, because
> it relies on doing stuff with the drive in the final machine and then
> configuring it. It would be wonderful to do something like I do with 
> GNU Autoconf based software: run configure with --prefix= to point to
> the final destination of the software, but then run make install with
> prefix= pointing to the temporary install location.
> 

I have written, for general purposes, a script called `mkbimage' (MaKe a
Bootable IMAGE) that I use for creating virtual bootable disks. That may
be your solution (please note that some features, used for creating
special floppies etc need the patches I have made for El Torito and so
on). The script:

http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage

The patches (against 0.92 _CVS_ tree, and one needs to rerun automake
(1.5) and autoconf to regenerate the *.in):

http://alpha.polynum.org/misc/grub-0.92_cd+ef.diff.gz

Cheers,
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