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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Linux first or GRUB first ? Post 302882069 by sreyan32 on Saturday 4th of January 2014 06:01:05 AM
Old 01-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by neutronscott
  • GRUB is usually installed as part of any Linux distribution installation.
  • GRUB will chainload your Windows bootloader.
  • The master boot record (MBR) will locate the active partition and load it's boot code. You can install grub into the MBR, or change your active partition. Nothing is generally written into your Windows partitions.
  • This sounds like grub4dos ... You can insert that into your windows bootloader.
Is there any way I can install GRUB first and then Linux ? I install GRUB to my active partition and then install Linux. I want to do this because I have a disc of Debian 6.06 and the GRUB in it does not support UEFI. So I want to install a recent version of GRUB manually and then install Debian 6.06. Is that possible ?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

grub-install

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.

REPORTING BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       grub(8), update-grub(8).

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package.  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)					   January 2013 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)
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