Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?

Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?

[Treutwein Bernhard]

about 1.5 months ago, I asked about the "Future of grub commands setup and
install" (sorrily I have put that thread below some other thread), see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-09/msg00096.html

The reason for asking is that I rarely have an installed linux on systems
with grub and therefore have difficulties to do the simple

	grub-install /dev/sda

but I also see that there is no reason at all to reinvent/program things
again and again. 

I summarize the replies with and ask for comments for a request for
enhancement:

I think it would be very desirable to have (at least optionally) a micro
linux distribution (e.g. linux-libre with busybox or something similar) or at
least have some instructions how to setup such an micro distribution for
almost sole use by grub. It would allow for "escaping" grub as boot loader
into a boot-loader configuration environment.

any opinions?

regards
--
  Bernhard 

RE: Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?

[Treutwein Bernhard]

hmm, since nobody replied so far, I searched a bit for a distro, which might
be usable for assisting installation & setup of Grub 2.

I found microcore linux (which in turn is a stripped down version of tinycore
linux): http://tinycorelinux.com/

This distro runs only on x86. It requires less than 10MB disk space and about
30MB RAM. It boots blindingly fast into ram and is based on BusyBox.

regards
--
  Bernhard

Re: Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?

[Dmitry Ilyin]

25.10.2010 12:20, Treutwein Bernhard пишет:
> about 1.5 months ago, I asked about the "Future of grub commands setup and
> install" (sorrily I have put that thread below some other thread), see:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-09/msg00096.html
>
> The reason for asking is that I rarely have an installed linux on systems
> with grub and therefore have difficulties to do the simple
>
> 	grub-install /dev/sda
>
> but I also see that there is no reason at all to reinvent/program things
> again and again.
>
> I summarize the replies with and ask for comments for a request for
> enhancement:
>
> I think it would be very desirable to have (at least optionally) a micro
> linux distribution (e.g. linux-libre with busybox or something similar) or at
> least have some instructions how to setup such an micro distribution for
> almost sole use by grub. It would allow for "escaping" grub as boot loader
> into a boot-loader configuration environment.
>
> any opinions?
>
> regards
> --
>    Bernhard
>
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Use this http://rip.7bf.de/current/

download http://rip.7bf.de/current/RIPLinuX-11.1.grub2.iso
use this as livecd to install grub2 or copy kernel and initramfs to 
target system or flash to boot it when needed
there is also
www.supergrubdisk.org

RE: Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?

[Treutwein Bernhard]

Hi Dmitry,

thanks for the pointer. That might also be a solution.

Currently I'm experimenting with tiny-/microcore Linux
(http://tinycorelinux.com/) and it looks very promising, especially since it
has already a ready made Grub-2 package ... 

tiny-/microcore Linux are (including ntfs-3g and midnight commander addons)
less than 20MB

regards
--
  Bernhard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Ilyin [mailto:idv1985@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:33 AM
> To: The development of GNU GRUB
> Subject: Re: Again: Future of grub commands setup and install ?
> 
[...]
> >    
> Use this http://rip.7bf.de/current/
> 
> download http://rip.7bf.de/current/RIPLinuX-11.1.grub2.iso
> use this as livecd to install grub2 or copy kernel and initramfs to 
> target system or flash to boot it when needed
> there is also www.supergrubdisk.org
>