What to GRUB to boot from hd0/mbr install from CD

Forum: HD Install
Topic: What to GRUB to boot from hd0/mbr install from CD
started by: cd-r80

Posted by cd-r80 on Nov. 02 2006,09:28

What I have to put my GRUB menu & what to copy to c:/boot? I would like to boot from hd & start install from cd to hd. Is it possible? Is there part. manager in installation?

I have iso burned to a CD
-cannot boot from CDrom
-No floppy drive
-No USB

I have installed GRUB from windows ME to mbr.
in c:/boot I have menu.lst waiting...

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 02 2006,14:23

If you want to use grub to directly boot off cd, you apparently need a recent build no farther back than 8/8/2006. Of course if you already have an older one installed, you could use that to boot some bootfloppy image instead.

Or you could try sbm (smart boot manager), etc.

This might help:
< http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18045&st=0 >

Posted by cd-r80 on Nov. 02 2006,16:32

Thanks, but looking little bit late this anwers. I just booted to DSL. I found from installing-GRUB what to put c:/menu.lst after installing grub to /mbr in windowsME. Just:

Title DSL
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda1
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
makeactive
boot

and /boot / and KNOPPIX copies from cd to c:.
Just need to install Gparted or something to continue..

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 02 2006,18:07

Ah yea.. forgot DSL/knoppix looks on available hd/cd for the first instance of the os image regardless where the kernel originally booted from.