Loader, developed by GNU. You can easily install Grub2 on Windows with just a few commands. For Windows, you should download the latest version of Grub2 here. It supports Windows 7, 8. Check the number of hard disk you will install, be it USB or HDD. The GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is a highly configurable and customizable bootloader with modular architecture. It supports a rich variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices.
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2. Installation procedure
2.1 Preparing boot floppies
You will need 3 floppy disks. Make the first floppy a DOSbootable disk. Copy fdisk.exe and sys.exe onto this floppy disk.
Use your secondfloppy disk to make a Windows 98 emergency disk. You will use the third floppy for GRUB shortly.
2.2 Installing linux
Install your favorite distribution of linux. You will need to usefdisk to partition your hard disk. Calculate ahead of time how muchdisk space each of your operating systems will take.
Here is how I partitioned my hard disk:
My first partition is for booting Windows 2000. 10MG should be plentyto do that. This partition will only contains the file necessary toboot NT such as boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, etc... NT will residein partition 6 in my example. This partition is Hidden FAT16.
The second partition is for DOS. I deemed 100M sufficient. This isFAT16 too
The third partition is for Win9x. I gave it 5G and made it FAT32 forperformance.
Next create the extended partition for the remaining of your harddisk. This shows up as partition 4 on fdisk.
Create a 2GB partition. This partitions is used to share databetween all operating systems. Make sure that all the sum of all abovepartitions are less than 8GB. This is a DOS limitation.
Next create your Windows 2000 partition. I gave it 10G since thisbreed of windows is a bloated pig. I made it a HPFS/NTFS partition for speed.
Next add your swap partition and linux partition. Make sure you do nothave a separate partition for /boot. Things look better in GRUB if youkeep /boot in the root partition.
After you have installed linux go ahead and format the fat16 partitions:
2.3 Installing GRUB
Make sure you have the latest version of GRUB. I am using version0.5.96.1. The version that came with my distribution was out of dateand gave me a lot of grief. You can download the latest version athttp://www.fsf.org.
Now you'll want to install GRUB on the floppy disk. You don't want toinstall it on the hard disk yet because Windows 2000 will overwriteit.
Create the following menu.lst for GRUB. This file lives in /boot/grub.
Check that you can boot linux with the floppy disk. If you are havingtrouble you can drop in GRUB's command line and figure out what isgoing on. GRUB is very well documented, if you have any trouble pleasetake a look at the documentation.
2.4 Installing windows 2000:
I had to initialize the first partition before installing windows2000. Insert the DOS startup disk and reboot your computer. Once youget to the DOS prompt do the followings:
Now you can go ahead and install windows 2000. At some pointWindows 2000 will prompt you for the partition on which you want toinstall. The partition you created with fdisk should show up asdamaged or unformatted partition. Go ahead and select it.
To hide the Windows 2000 menu edit a file called boot.ini that shouldbe in the C: drive. Change the timeout value from 30 to 0.
2.5 Installing DOS.
Insert the GRUB disk. When you see the menu insertthe DOS boot disk. Select partition 2 (floppy) from the menu.Hitenter. This will boot the floppy disk and hide partition 1 and 3.
Run FDISK and check that the C: drive is partition 2. Next installDOS:
2.6 Installing Windows 98
Insert the GRUB disk. When you see the menu insertthe Windows 98 Emergency disk. Select partition 3 (floppy) from the menu.Hitenter. This will boot the floppy disk and hide partition 1 and 2.
Run FDISK and check that the C: drive is partition 3. Next installWindows 98:
2.7 The final touch
Test that everything is working from GRUB:
You should be able to boot from all 4 operating systems from the GRUBfloppy disk.
If everything looks right you can go ahead and install GRUB on yourhard disk. From linux type:
You should now be able to boot all 4 operating systems from the GRUBmenu. Enjoy!
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How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
How To Add A Splash Image To GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme Follow me on Twitter
This tutorial shows how you can add a splash image to your GRUB 2 boot loader on Ubuntu 9.04. Please note that you should use this tutorial only if you have upgraded your bootloader to GRUB 2 previously, as shown in this tutorial: How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
Adding Splash Images
Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)...
... and install the grub2-splashimages package:
This installs some splash images in the /usr/share/images/grub directory. To preview them, go to Places > Computer...
... and navigate to the /usr/share/images/grub folder. You should see thumbnails of the available splash images (which have the extension .tga):
Right-click the image that you want to use and select Properties. On the Basic tab, copy the name of the image (without the extension .tga):
Now open /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme...
... and replace the line...
... with:
(Make sure that you use the correct file name of your wanted splash image!)
Then update the GRUB configuration...
... and reboot the system:
The GRUB menu should now use the wanted image as the background: