Clive Rogers schrieb: > Hello All, > > I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how > good > and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on > his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. > > So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux > he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? Hi! This won't work.
Alternatives: 1) use a floppy disk with grub on the boot sector which then loads everything from the hard disk (/ or /boot partition). Fast, because only the boot sector (512 bytes) should be loaded from the disk, NOT the other grub stages, menu.lst and the kernel. I haven't done this with grub, only with lilo, yet. 2) put grub onto the boot sector of the / or the /boot partition (if you have one). Then, configure your XP boot menu to boot this partition. You have to get a certain tool -- bootpart, http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, create a "boot sector file" that boots the /[boot] partition, and enter "it" into boot.ini of windows partition (probably C:\). 3) for a CD boot, you need isolinux. As this is probably not what you want/need, I just leave it with that. I'd guess that (2) is the best solution for your friend; I had done this for quite some time, with 2000 and XP, and LILO on the linux partition(s). For some time though, grub is on the MBR. By the way: To restore the MBR for Windows, if you should overwrite it, you need to boot a windows (XP) CD, boot into "rescue console", select your installation (probably 1), enter the "Administrator" password, and type fixmbr, possible fixboot afterwards. Vista should also be able to do this, though I don't exactly know how. Hope this helps, Sebastian > > If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
