vikrang
October 27th, 2010, 09:21 AM
I was going through Mr Steve (GRUB -legacy )and Herman's posts on installing GRUB in a separate partition..The article by Mr Steve is slightly old but nevertheless also applies to GRUB2.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grubpartition.htm
In a nutshell, Mr Steve asks to do the foll to make GRUB independent of OS
1. Create a separate partition of 1 MB size
2. Copy Stage 1, Stage 2 and menu.lst from an existing distro without Kernel
3. Reference GRUB partition to MBR
My doubts are
Currently I have Win 7 boot loader in my MBR
1.Assume I create the GRUB partition as "logical partition" and link it to MBR as mentioned above. Now , suppose I accidentally delete the 1MB partition, on reboot will my Win 7 bootloader take over or I will get boot errors whereby I have to scratch around for my win 7 install disk and re-install Win 7 Loader to Bootsector? (I want to avoid this hassle!!)..I presume that by making a dedicated GRUB partition my Windows config will remain untouched..meaning by the above method , it is only temporarily delinked
2. The big Qn , What files I have to copy for GRUB 2 ...Right now there are 3 places where the files are stored./boot/grub , grub.cfg and /etc/default where other files like 40_custom ,10_xxxx, 20_xxxx,30_osprober so on and so forth is also stored.
3. Can LILO be booted from GRUB2? (planning to install Slack / Zenwalk)
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grubpartition.htm
In a nutshell, Mr Steve asks to do the foll to make GRUB independent of OS
1. Create a separate partition of 1 MB size
2. Copy Stage 1, Stage 2 and menu.lst from an existing distro without Kernel
3. Reference GRUB partition to MBR
My doubts are
Currently I have Win 7 boot loader in my MBR
1.Assume I create the GRUB partition as "logical partition" and link it to MBR as mentioned above. Now , suppose I accidentally delete the 1MB partition, on reboot will my Win 7 bootloader take over or I will get boot errors whereby I have to scratch around for my win 7 install disk and re-install Win 7 Loader to Bootsector? (I want to avoid this hassle!!)..I presume that by making a dedicated GRUB partition my Windows config will remain untouched..meaning by the above method , it is only temporarily delinked
2. The big Qn , What files I have to copy for GRUB 2 ...Right now there are 3 places where the files are stored./boot/grub , grub.cfg and /etc/default where other files like 40_custom ,10_xxxx, 20_xxxx,30_osprober so on and so forth is also stored.
3. Can LILO be booted from GRUB2? (planning to install Slack / Zenwalk)