Installing grub to dual boot

[Mike Reinehr]

On Friday 10 June 2005 03:42 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> The deprecation of grub-install is news to me also. Wonder what replaces
> it? It always "just worked" for me.
>
> Michael

Okay, apparently the documentation has changed a bit since I printed the 
manual last year. Here's what it says now:

> Installing GRUB using grub-install
> 
> 
> Caution: This procedure is definitely less safe, because there are several 
ways in which your computer can become unbootable. For example, most 
operating systems don't tell GRUB how to map BIOS drives to OS devices 
correctly--GRUB merely guesses the mapping. This will succeed in most cases, 
but not always. Therefore, GRUB provides you with a map file called the 
device map, which you must fix if it is wrong. See Device map, for more 
details. 
> 
> 
> If you still do want to install GRUB under a UNIX-like OS (such as GNU), 
invoke the program grub-install (see Invoking grub-install) as the superuser 
(root).
 ...

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub-install.html#Installing%20GRUB%20using%20grub-install


The recommended method is by means of Installing GRUB Natively:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html#Installing%20GRUB%20natively

Cheers!

cmr
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