Re: Getting GRUB onto the MBR of HD

[Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net>]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:45:57PM -0400, Alain Hoang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I've managed to get the HURD installed on a secondary partition on one of
> my Debian boxes and made the GRUB floppy and got HURD to bootup fine and
> dandy however there doesn't seem to be any documentation describing a
> process of getting GRUB installed onto the MBR so I can load up the HURD
> without having a GRUB floppy.  I really need this since the box I'll be
> running HURD mainly from will not have a floppy drive.  If anyone knows
> how, some tips would be greatly appreciated.  In my case my partition
> layout is as follows:
> 
> hd0s0: Linux Ext2 Partition for Linux
> hd0s1: Linux Swap
> hd0s2: Linux Ext2 Partition for HURD
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Alain Hoang
> hoanga@alum.rpi.edu
> ----------
> hoanga@alum.rpi.edu
> 

My linux install of GRUB has an info file with a tutorial.  I assume
you have GRUB installed in Linux?  I don't remeber the exact
commands.  It involves booting from the GRUB floppy and executing
some commands from the GRUB shell.  ...but it seems you don't have a
floppy drive on the box where you want to install GRUB & HURD.

Note that GRUB has yet another syntax for describing hard disk
partitions.

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