GRUB Install

[azeem ahmad]

>From: Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Billy Tallis <wtallis at gmail.com>,For users of Fedora Core 
>releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie,For users of Fedora Core releases 
><fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: GRUB Install
>Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:30:03 -0400
>
>On 5/7/05, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > azeem ahmad wrote:
> >
> > >> > i have a new hard disk without any OS or Bootloader. i want to 
>install
> > >>GRUB
> > >> > bootloader on this new harddisk. but i only want GRUB (bootloader) 
>to
> > >> > be installed on this harddisk. i dont want an operating system with
> > >> > GRUB. how i can make it
> > >>
> > >>As the name bootloader implies it is meant to start some operating
> > >>system at boot time. What is the reason for this question?
> >
> > > i m doing it for just studying purpose. i got your point but the 
>question
> > > is how to store/install GRUB on this harddisk. is it like an rpm or i 
>have
> > > to get some software and to compile it.
> >
> > grub consists of several parts - the actual boot-loader,
> > and one or two files that this points to,
> > which need not be on the same disk.
> >
> > Assuming you are running Linux, you could say
> > "grub-install /dev/hdb" (substituting the disk you are using for hdb).
> >
> > Then you could look at what you have created with
> >         dd if=/dev/hdb of=myboot bs=512 count=1
> >
>
>GRUB fits on a floppy, if you remember them. You may not need to use a
>hard disk for it at all.
infact what i want to do is to install GRUB on a harddisk then point 
bootloader to the initrd and vmlinuz of isolinux so that it can boot the 
installer of linux. infact i want to make such a harddisk that contain linux 
iso images and boot linux installer so that i can be able to just put this 
harddisk into any computer, boot from this harddisk and start linux 
installation for that computer's disk
Regards
Azeem
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