Talk:GRUB

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--Kotuxguy 17:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

• Could you probably be more specific with an example how you created such an image? I tried your example to create a floppy image, but it won't boot with qemu for me. It's most likely totaly simple... --Arbaal
  • Okay, I found another nice method: "grub-mkrescue --image-type=floppy --modules=multiboot --overlay=floppy/ floppy.img" This will create you a floppy image, which will contain the overlay from the folder "floppy/". When you put a normal grub folder structure in there (like: floppy/boot/grub) and store your kernel.bin and grub.conf in there, it will be loaded fine. You can even create a CD-image. --Arbaal 20:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Yes, that will work too. Although, I'm not sure if you can have grub.cfg. Which would defeat the purpose of using GRUB 2, as you could not enable/configure VESA, load a Lua script for parsing, etc..

--Kotuxguy 22:44, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Install GRUB2 to a disk image

It's difficult if not impossible to install GRUB2 to a disk image. If you want to install GRUB2 to a disk image, you can first install GRUB Legacy on the disk image(google this if you don't know how), then generate a core.img, put the core.img and other .mod files into the disk image and use GRUB Legacy's "kernel" command to load core.img, then you got a fully functional GRUB2. -- torshie

• AFAIK, this is a necessary evil :( --Kotuxguy 16:30, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

FreeBSD

I can't get grub-mkimage to successfully execute on FreeBSD using any of the examples provided on this page. Is anyone else experiencing this?