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

[Chris Thomas]

Boot from any of the live cds (Gentoo, Ubuntu, etc...) and use yaboot
to configure your bootloader. The command ybin -v should do it.

-Chris

On 7/14/06, O'Connor, Michael P. <mpoconnor at switch.com> wrote:
> 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
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> -----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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