Install grub to CD, but use HD grub.conf?

[Mark Haney]

Neil Bird wrote:
> 
>   I need to create a grub boot CD for a laptop so that I can dual boot 
> FC3 with Windows without touching the laptop drive's MBR.
> 
Use mkbootdisk --iso it's what I use on a machine of mine that takes any 
MBR changes and reverts them as part of the recovery process.  Build the 
ISO then burn to a CD-RW.

>   This seems straightforward enough if I hard-code the kernel version to 
> use (in a CD menu.lst), but can I do it in such a way as to make the CD 
> grub read the HD grub.conf so that it'll automatically work after kernel 
> upgrades?
> 
>   Kernels seem to no longer maintain symlinks in /boot of vxlinuz (etc.) 
> to the latest version, otherwise I'd probably be able to use that.
> 


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