Re: How to create GRUB image into a file
- From: Douglas Mayne <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:45:45 -0600
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:44:22 -0700, iforone wrote:
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Douglas Mayne wrote:
You're right, you don't need a boot partition. But there is one caveat,Hi Doug;
Am I not mistaken when I say you do NOT *need* a /boot *partition* --
one would just install GRUB onto the GNU/Linux partition (e.g.;
/dev/hda3). I've installed Debian, all onto 1 partition once or twice,
just because it was easier - and GRUB worked just fine for my Dual-Boot
situations.
it works best if you begin loading grub from the MBR. It will be happy
just as long as it can load its files from somewhere. The location where
grub will get its files is established when grub is installed.
As I said, I did some tests which show grub works best if it installed at
the MBR (and continues loading using the partition that has been setup
(i.e. its root partition.) In some cases, as per the OP's case, when the
"stage 1" is installed on the partition (not the MBR), there can be
problems with some types of filesystems (XFS, reiserfs, jfs). ext2/ext3
always work, and in that case, that is a reason to use a boot partition
formatted ext2. But, that is also unnecessary, IMO. The whole issue can
be avoided by simply installing grub at the MBR. The OP is afraid to do
that for some reason.
--
Douglas Mayne
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