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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grub and longhorn loader Post 302193525 by dancingfool on Friday 9th of May 2008 04:16:31 PM
Old 05-09-2008
Grub and Longhorn loader
Thank you for your reply. I am indeed chainloading grub to the longhorn loader (which is Microsoft's answer to grub used by Vista and Longhorn). My mbr points to Grub which points to initrd, which I can edit manually (gotta love linux for your ability to do almost anything with a simple text editor). I have no idea how the longhorn loader works, however, so I was concerned that when I restore my mbr using my bootable cd (you still use floppy disks?) I would loose the longhorn loader since I cannot simply restore my current working grub configuration. I have no worries that after restoring my mbr I can get grub and any posix compatible OS, but I know very little about this new longhorn loader. I will go to my test network and install vista on a new drive, then install XP which will kill my longhorn loader, then install FC 7, I am confident that grub will indeed find the longhorn loader even after the XP wipe of the mbr, but I want to do it in a test environment before I try to install XP on my tri-booting GUTSY, Vista, FC 7 laptop (believe me I would be happy to eliminate all Microsoft products from all of my computers but my field laptop requires uber-compatability beyond the capabilities of wine or cedega). I will let you know how it goes.
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

grub-install

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 					  System Administration Utilities					   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB to a device

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --modules=MODULES
	      pre-load specified modules MODULES

       --boot-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub instead of the /boot/grub directory

       --grub-setup=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-setup

       --grub-mkimage=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkimage

       --grub-mkrelpath=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-mkrelpath

       --grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap

       --grub-probe=FILE
	      use FILE as grub-probe

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --allow-floppy
	      Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       --force
	      install even if problems are detected

       --disk-module=MODULE
	      disk module to use

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub-mkconfig(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-setup(8), grub-mkrescue(1)

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and grub-install programs are properly installed at
       your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5				   October 2011 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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