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On 12/08/2014 10:54 AM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.12.2014, 10:14 +0000 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>> If you have the time to create the image yourself, please let me know.
>
> I'd love to, but how do I create an image with just GRUB and the game,
> but no actual OS?
>
> - Fabian
>
>
>

I would use a boot environment, like the "try it out" mode of 
Fedora/Ubuntu etc to get a working linux environment, create a /boot 
partition on a smallish virtual hard disk, and install your packages as 
needed.

If manually installing a bootable grub sounds gross, I would try a two 
virtual disk approach where you put /boot on -hda and / on -hdb, and 
just run through e.g. the Debian installation process and install your 
grub packages as needed. Then once completed, you can use either the OS 
installation or a boot disk to cull the OS entries from grub, then 
delete the second virtual disk to leave you with a functioning grub stub.