Schmidt, Christian Thorge wrote:
I frequently install systems from tarbell'ed systemimages. I use a
USB thhumbdrive to boot, then prepare my HDD(s) and untar the system
onto them, then proceed setting up grub.
After switching to grub2, Ubuntu 12.04's default bootloader, I
cannot do my usual
$ grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> (setup (hd0)
grub> quit
anymore - what would I do to install my tarball's grub2?
Yeah, it used to be so easy didn't it.
As far as I can make out, this should do it :
grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/mnt/dest /dev/sda
But you may have to manually create a grub.cfg file for the first boot.
Alternatively, I think I've done it by getting to the grub menu at
boot time (not all live/install disks make this easy) and manually
booting it. From memory it's a matter of typing "kernel vm<tab>"
followed by "initrd init<tab>" and then "boot" - at least GRUB2
supports <tab> for autocomplete :) BUT - you need to specify the
device first and I can't remember offhand how to do that (I've only
recently done it with a broken grub where the bootloader was already
on the drive).
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