Install grub to cd

Learn more. Install grub from live CD Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 6 months ago. Active 1 year, 6 months ago. Viewed 11k times. Improve this question. Easiest method is to use boot-repair. You need to install grub to the MBR of the fist hard drive, not sda4. I have the ubuntu installed on sda4 — gen. Read this question instead askubuntu.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. We see a bunch of file system-specific stage 1. So one for ext, one for reiser, one for xfs, and more. And interestingly, GRUB access ext2, ext3, and ext4 file system all with the same driver. It is called the bootgrub menu in the command line see below command. And then below this at the bottom, we have got the operating system specific settings.

Then splash image, well, that just puts a custom splash image up behind the boot menu, not normally that important other than maybe for branding. Here, the hidden menu option hides the menu of OS Operating System choices unless we hit a key.

In fact,. So, we will look at it first without the hidden menu. And at the bottom, here we have got a timer telling us how long we have got until the boot continues. Multi-booting can be a bit of a complicated thing, so a hidden menu lets us hides that menu, and instead, all we get is this.

We can add a few more if we need, such as fallback options just in case the default option fails,. We need a minimum of three lines, title, root, and kernel, for each operating system, and for Linux, we need another line, initrd. Post by Fred » Tue May 25, am.

Post by piratesmack » Tue May 25, pm. Privacy Terms. Skip to content. Quick links. Forum rules Please don't add support questions to tutorials, start your own topic in the appropriate sub-forum instead. Before you post please read this. This is for Grub legacy 0. Select Yes and press [Enter] key to continue. Next, you will be provided with Rescue operations menu.

On the next screen, type your machine disk device where the GRUB will be installed and press [Enter] to continue, as shown in the below image. After the live system installs the GRUB boot loader you will be directed back to main rescue mode menu. Finally, eject the live bootable media from the appropriate drive, reboot the machine and you should be able to boot into the installed operating system. The first screen to appear should be installed operating system GRUB menu, as illustrated in the below screenshot.

On the next screen hit Continue by pressing [enter] key in order to open a shell in your root file system partition. After the shell has been opened in the root file system, execute ls command as presented below in order to identify your machine hard disk devices.

Here, choose the option to reboot the system, eject the live bootable ISO image and your installed operating system should be booted without any issue. TecMint is the fastest growing and most trusted community site for any kind of Linux Articles, Guides and Books on the web.

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