An even better solution requires no extra floppies, CD's or even a USB memory stick. Just install GRUB on the BR of the boot *partition* (not in the MBR), copy the usual boot loader code from the partition, install it on the C: drive as a file, and add the option to your C:\boot.ini file. Easy instructions are at:Monkey Pet wrote:I am trying to figure out booting from a USB memory stick also. Basically, I have installed linux and don't want to put grub on theMBR since I have a dell laptop and don't want to blow alway the recovery utilities, etc. I am currently booting into linux using a CD created by the mkbootdisk program. I want to be able to do the same thing, but put it on the usb memory stick. What would be idea is just to put grub on the memory stick and be able to point it to the hd to do the actual booting. I know my bios supports booting off the memory stick.When you installed Fedora, did you install grub on the boot/root partition (rather than the MBR)? If so, you could install grub on any other device (memory stcik, floppy etc.) and use an entry like this:title Fedora Core rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 (where (hd0,1) is the partition grub is installed on) to boot Fedora. Paul.
http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion/index.php/t47038.html I use this myself under Windows 2000 to boot Linux, and it works great. -- Fritz Whittington"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." -- Mark Twain
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