On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:34:52PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:00:38PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: >>> David Barrett wrote: >>>> What's the best way to create a raw disk image using debootstrap that >>>> can be booted with qemu? >>> Following up on my previous post: I've figured out some of the steps, but >>> I'm stuck on installing Grub. Do you know how to install grub on a raw >>> device file? >> >> Forgive a silly question, but why do you want to install grub on the >> image? Are you planning to dd it onto a physical disk? > > No, I'm just going to use it as a QEMU image. It'll stay virtual, but > it'll need to boot all the same. Unless there's some way to get it to boot > without grub? If I recall correctly, qemu can boot a linux kernel directly so you *probably* don't need grub. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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