Grub help, Please

Could use a "Grub" expert . . .
Here is my bottom line: I need to put Grub on the boot partition
(/boot /dev/sda7) of my machine. It is not to touch the MBR.
Here is my set up: a multi-boot system using OS/2 Boot Manager. It
boots WinXP, OS/2, & OpenSuSE. I have this on a working laptop.

Now, I transferred this to a slightly smaller HD where I could spare
some partition space. (It is for a second laptop). The other two
systems boot. I bundled OpenSuSE into a tarball from the working
laptop. Open SuSE covers 2 partitions /boot, /dev/sda7 and /
/dev/sda14. I managed to get all the files untarred to these two
partitions on the HD. However, Grub, stage1 and the other Grub files
(/boot/grub) just put themselves in as regular files in the dissolving
of the tarball. I believe stage1 needs to be on the 1st sector of the
partition /boot (/dev/sda7). This is what I want to command Grub to
do.
Reinstall itself to /dev/sda7 (/boot). This is where all the boot
stuff is found. It is not to make itself active nor touch the MBR.
OS/2's Boot Manager will see this partition as "bootable" and will
find it if the Grub stuff is in the right sector.
All the stuff I have read wants to put Grub into the MBR. There is
nothing I have found (that I can understand) to put it specifically
and ONLY on my /boot partition. I looked at "info grub" and under
"setup" and "install" but can't get a clear idea of what to do.
Paul
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