Re: I'm a newb, looking for guidance

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Jay Sullivan wrote:
> Okay! I realized now that I would like to install the newest version of
> grub2 to a USB drive.  Can anyone recommend to me the best way to do this?
> This seems like a good idea since if it fails to boot, I can easily fallback
> to my harddrive's bootloader.
> 
> I'd like to point out that I'm currently having trouble getting started with
> grub2 development.  The reason is that I currently have grub-legacy
> installed to my system, and I can't figure out how to get grub2 working
> properly and I have a feeling that they are conflicting.  I have downloaded
> GRUB-1.96, and configured and successfully ran makefile, but if I run
> make-install will I overwrite grub-legacy? If not, how can I access the
> grub2 shell?  I've attempted to install it but /usr/local/bin/grub still
> holds grub-legacy.  Do I chainload core.img? Am I doing this whole thing
> wrong?  Thanks and I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid questions =)

These might help you:
http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86
http://grub.enbug.org/UseCases/Ubuntu

On first url there is example how to boot grub 2 from grub legacy.