Installing Grub on a bootable CD

Tony Crouch acrouch2 at une.edu.au
Sat Jun 25 04:23:53 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 21:16 -0700, Monkey Pet wrote:
> I don't want to install grub on the HD, but I instead I want to be
> able to boot it using a boot CD.  This is because I don't want to
> destroy the current MBR.  I have the following questions:
> 
> 1.  Can I use the rescue CD to boot into linux which is installed on the HD?
> 2.  If I can't do the above, what are my options?

If you are just wanting to boot into Linux shouldn't a floppy boot disc
suffice?

If your wanting to use a CD-rom because you don't have a floppy drive, I
couldn't see why it wouldn't work ... then again I'm only a newbie to
Linux.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, 
Tony
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