From: Billy Tallis <wtallis@xxxxxxxxx>infact what i want to do is to install GRUB on a harddisk then point bootloader to the initrd and vmlinuz of isolinux so that it can boot the installer of linux. infact i want to make such a harddisk that contain linux iso images and boot linux installer so that i can be able to just put this harddisk into any computer, boot from this harddisk and start linux installation for that computer's disk
Reply-To: Billy Tallis <wtallis@xxxxxxxxx>,For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: GRUB Install
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:30:03 -0400
On 5/7/05, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> azeem ahmad wrote:
>
> >> > i have a new hard disk without any OS or Bootloader. i want to install
> >>GRUB
> >> > bootloader on this new harddisk. but i only want GRUB (bootloader) to
> >> > be installed on this harddisk. i dont want an operating system with
> >> > GRUB. how i can make it
> >>
> >>As the name bootloader implies it is meant to start some operating
> >>system at boot time. What is the reason for this question?
>
> > i m doing it for just studying purpose. i got your point but the question
> > is how to store/install GRUB on this harddisk. is it like an rpm or i have
> > to get some software and to compile it.
>
> grub consists of several parts - the actual boot-loader,
> and one or two files that this points to,
> which need not be on the same disk.
>
> Assuming you are running Linux, you could say
> "grub-install /dev/hdb" (substituting the disk you are using for hdb).
>
> Then you could look at what you have created with
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=myboot bs=512 count=1
>
GRUB fits on a floppy, if you remember them. You may not need to use a hard disk for it at all.
Regards
Azeem
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