Re: Grub installation guide: [was Re: Install from FreeBSD]
Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 04:59:02AM +0000, Alexander Kellett was heard to say:
> > Then create a bootdisk with grub 5.93.1 (IIRC) by
> > dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 count=512
> >
> > Then boot from this disk and type: roughly...
> > root (fd0)
> > install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst
> > root (hd0)
> > chainloader +1
> > boot
>
> This is correct (I couldn't remember the exact command, which is part of why
> I wimped out and said "Read The Manual"), but you don't need to create the disk
> to do this; recent grubs can be run from the UNIX shell in command-line mode
> to do this (although you don't need to issue the last three commands to boot
> since you already have, you want to say root=(device holding grub stuff), etc)
I found this to be buggy on my machine, altough it was a while ago.
Maybe it has improved.
I think there are some problems with drive detection, have they been
fixed now?
Alex
>
> Daniel
>
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