Comments on: Where should you install GRUB?

By: Ashkan A.

Ashkan A. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:39:27 +0000

Hello!

I use Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala on an USB
flash drive.
after updating the system using update manager,
where should I install grub?(it asks me in terms of sda and…
which I’m not familiar with.)

By: nikhil

nikhil — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:56:53 +0000

grub4dos is a much better bootloader incase you wish to dual boot windows and linux.

By: haal12

haal12 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:37:18 +0000

Vista is a domineering monster, Xp is slightly better.

You need to develop a Vsta accountable GRUB multi-boot.

I am looking at the Open src code for this and it indicates

a total isolation of the linux partition designed to fool the

windows installation. A pre-cognitive Vista Bootloader.

!OR! Make the linux or Unx boot a Vista Slave(2). So far,

#2 is just not an option to date.

By: Keith Bowes

Keith Bowes — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:05:52 +0000

Wow, I really like LILO (much better than GRUB), but I didn’t know it was obsolete. GRUB is just too GNU-ish: functional but cryptic and scary. But both tools remind me of Disney movies–Lilo & Stich and The Lion King–as sad as that might be.

By: Love Music

Love Music — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:40:52 +0000

I believe what Jim is looking for is “howto configure grub”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:25:38 +0000

Definitely would have been helpful to include commands to install Grub to partition only rather than overwrite MBR. I already know that’s what I need to do so that rEFIt Windows icon will work (without going through grub). But I have been scouring the web for the last 20 hours trying to find the commands to do so! Grub man pages and other how-tos (that you alluded to) are completely useless for this objective, as is trial and error at the grub prompt. Nobody–and I mean NOBODY–explains how to make Grub install only to the partition, at least after it has already overwritten the MBR. I appreciate the time and effort you went in to writing this, but without the actual commands (or at least a link to them), you’ve only succeeded in wasting my time. This is constructive criticism (that you can act on), not a flame, because you were generous enough to do this for free (or without payment from me at least).

By: Jon WickstrÃ¶m

Jon WickstrÃ¶m — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:11:39 +0000

“If you are installing Linux to a secondary hard drive, and no part of it will be on your main hard drive, then you must install GRUB to the MBR”

Not true at all! I have the Windows bootloader on my first hard drive and Linux on my third (physical!) drive.Just follow the steps on described in “How-To”s for using the NTLDR to jump into GRUB.(Installing GRUB on the boot partition) BUT you cannot use the grub-install script, you have to go into the grub “shell” and specify on which (physical) harddrive GRUB stage 2 is. First harddrive is apparently assumed otherwise.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:09:40 +0000

How to install GRUB has been covered well elsewhere, including in its own manual; it's pretty simple. The point here was to try to answer the question of where to install it.

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:21:31 +0000

It’s great to read to what had happenned some 5/10 years ago and what size of hard disk sizes were there!

Where are the actual steps of installing grub!

It would have been great if the author has given a step by step install instructions how to re/install GRUB.

By: Well ...

Well ... — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 13:39:53 +0000

Nice article. However this isn’t true about OS/2 and GRUB. Actually you can boot OS/2 from GRUB without problems. The bad thing is that LVM.EXE (partition manager in OS/2) will always overwrite MBR if it will contain unknown code.