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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Small linux no gui Post 302659277 by Corona688 on Wednesday 20th of June 2012 03:57:46 PM

06-20-2012

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I don't know of a real distribution for this. That's kind of overkill by definition. You don't need a package repository, you don't need much of anything at all, just a kernel and a bundle of files.

See initramfs on how to make that bundle of files. You'd probably use busybox in it -- it's a single swiss-army-knife executable which you can use like busybox cp source destination if you want cp, busybox cat filename if you want cat, etc, etc. Be sure to have a symlink /bin/sh pointing to /bin/busybox so scripts can run.

Just put whatever script you want into init instead of the stuff you'd use to chroot into a real system.

Going back to grub isn't trivial. You can't just "quit linux" and go back to grub. The kexec option allows you to boot another kernel, which would allow you to boot grub raw again without rebooting, but would take some fiddling to manage. The quick and dirty way to manage it is, of course, to just reboot...

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grub-install.unsupported

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB on your drive

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

       --root-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory

       --grub-shell=FILE
	      use FILE as the grub shell

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --force-lba
	      force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS

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

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

       grub-install  copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
       boot sector.

       The grub source distribution carries this script to ease the installation of grub as a boot loader. In Suse Linux however,  grub  installa-
       tion  is  much  better handled by Yast; use of this script is generally discouraged and therefore unsupported. Consequently, the script has
       been renamed to grub-install.unsupported.

       In order to (re-)install grub for the currently running system, simply use Yast. For an installation aiming  at	a  differing  system,  the
       crafting  of an appropriate device.map and grub shell script is strongly advised, e.g.  "grub --batch --device-map=target-device.map < tar-
       get-grub.conf"

SEE ALSO

       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 (GNU GRUB 0.97)					     May 2005							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)