Making booting only disks for a mac linux box (was RE: [wplug] grub-install)

[O'Connor, Michael P.]

I am wondering with this talk about a grub boot disk and fixing a grub
boot sector, how would one do this in the "new world" boot loader for
Linux on a Mac G3 (or higher) box.

Michael P. O'Connor
US&S 
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mpoconnor at switch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+mpoconnor=switch.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan S. Billings
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 3:39 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] grub-install

On 07/14/2006 01:35 PM, Arnaud Loos wrote:
> So I'm trying to run grub install to make grub my bootloader after 
> reinstalling windows.
> 
> Steps I'm taking (found at linuxquestions.org):
> 
> Boot Knoppix
> 
> Mkdir /mnt/my_system
> 
> Mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 /mnt/my_system

You can probably stop here, and use:

% grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/my_system /dev/hda

However, I would probably not even bother booting into Knoppix.  I have 
a grub boot disk that I keep handy.  I'd just boot off the grub boot 
disk, and type in the appropriate kernel and initrd lines, then boot the

OS, and re-run grub-install on my fully functional OS.

Grub boot disks are easy to make.  Just format a floppy with a fat 
filesystem (so you can put images on it from windows, if necessary), and

run 'grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy /dev/fd0'.


-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

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