On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I want to do the following: > establish a partition for grub2 separate from the various os's in use. > Perhaps this has been answered and then my apologies and please a link. > > Q: Does Grub2 contain the MBR? > Q: Can that first partition with Grub2 start at 0 or do I need to leave > room for MBR? > Q: Can I just unpack and make in that partition?
The first three questions should be answered by http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Installation and http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#BIOS-installation but if you still have questions feel free to ask for clarification. > Q: Would 1GB be enough or should I use 4? Grub's images (in /boot/grub/) take up less than 10 MiB, so if nothing more than that will be in the partition then 1 GiB is much more than enough. > Q: Is there a GUI for Grub2 that I could install in that 1st partition - > something like easybcd? There are no official GUI configuration tools for grub. There are some unofficial tools made by third parties which I haven't looked into much myself, but I would personally recommend sticking with grub's tools (text configuration files and terminal based utilities). > > Much appreciated > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub As a general note, try to make a clear distinction between grub as a bootloader ( The boot sector, embedded area, and the images and grub.cfg in /boot/grub/ ) and the userland grub tools used to configure and install grub ( grub-install, grub-mkconfig, etc ) which need to be installed and run from a full OS of some sort. -- Jordan Uggla _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
