From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: I'm a newb, looking for guidance
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:23:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49356F19.3060305@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f271b430812020719s56b61665xafdb7771b28b3fe3@mail.gmail.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-02 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-30 1:48 I'm a newb, looking for guidance Jay Sullivan
2008-11-30 10:29 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-01 8:31 ` Jay Sullivan
2008-12-02 15:19 ` Jay Sullivan
2008-12-02 16:28 ` Viswesh S
2008-12-02 17:23 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
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