Re: Installing GRUB 2 on a CompactFlash card

[Pavel Roskin]

Quoting Colin D Bennett <address@hidden>:

> If I create one partition on the CF card, for GRUB, I assume I should
> set up my grub.cfg to refer to it as (hd0,1) since this will only be
> used on the TARGET SYSTEM, right?

I suggest that you use the current GRUB from CVS and use UUID to refer  
to any drives.  update-grub will generate the new style grub.cfg, but  
be sure to back up your current grub.cfg in case it gets overwritten.

> Then on my development workstation I will do:
>    grub-install /dev/sdc
>
> But will this affect my development workstation's "/boot" ?

I don't think current GRUB will allow you to do that, but if  
cross-device installs were supported, it would indeed overwrite  
/boot/grub

> I want to
> install only to my CompactFlash card; is this possible without messing
> with my dev machine's filesystem?

Yes, I did it several times.

> If I have /dev/sdc1 (the CF card's partition) mounted
> at /media/grubtest, can I just do
>    grub-install --root-directory=/media/grubtest /dev/sdc

Yes, that should work.

In case you are not sure if the system boot was affected, I suggest  
that you reinstall grub on your hard drive the way it was installed  
before attempting a reboot.  Also make the rescue image with  
grub-mkrescue, write it to a CD and keep it handy in case you need to  
recover anything.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin