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Re: installing grub into a file
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Thierry Laronde |
Subject: |
Re: installing grub into a file |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:31:41 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:33:03PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
Hello,
>
> I would like to install grub into a file rather than a disk.
> I've already created 2 partitions in the file and ext2
> filesystems, and the appropriate grub files are in the /boot/grub dir
> of the first partition.
>
> I want to install stage 1 to the mbr and 1.5(ext2) to the
> boot sector (I think).
>
> So question is can I get the grub shell to do it
> (it was giving an error that it couldn't probe the device),
> or should I just dd the appropriate grub bits to the file?
>
> btw I was able to get lilo installed by doing some fancy
> losetup stuff, but grub should be much easier I think
> since it doesn't need to write block locations.
Use `mkbimage' (MaKe a Bootable IMAGE) to be found here:
http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage
This script allows one to create a virtual hd or floppy.
Cheers
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Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <address@hidden>
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