Jay Sullivan wrote: > Okay! I realized now that I would like to install the newest version of > grub2 to a USB drive. Can anyone recommend to me the best way to do this? > This seems like a good idea since if it fails to boot, I can easily fallback > to my harddrive's bootloader. > > I'd like to point out that I'm currently having trouble getting started with > grub2 development. The reason is that I currently have grub-legacy > installed to my system, and I can't figure out how to get grub2 working > properly and I have a feeling that they are conflicting. I have downloaded > GRUB-1.96, and configured and successfully ran makefile, but if I run > make-install will I overwrite grub-legacy? If not, how can I access the > grub2 shell? I've attempted to install it but /usr/local/bin/grub still > holds grub-legacy. Do I chainload core.img? Am I doing this whole thing > wrong? Thanks and I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid questions =)
These might help you: http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86 http://grub.enbug.org/UseCases/Ubuntu On first url there is example how to boot grub 2 from grub legacy. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel