[SOLVED] Installing Grub from scratch to boot Windows?

[littlebigman]

Hello

Since CloneZilla doesn't include the MBR when saving a partition into a file, I need to take care of this myself.

With a working XP in /sda1, I'd like to...
1. Boot with a Linux live CD
2. replace the Windows MBR with Grub, ie. without any Linux already installed
3. save Grub's configuration files into /sda2 (which is ext2fs-formatted)
4. add XP to Grub

Has someone done this and could explain what the steps are?

Thank you.

[oz]

I'm not sure how easily this task would be to achieve, but wouldn't the Windows bootloader be better suited to boot Windows if you are not going to be dual booting?

[littlebigman]

Yes, but I also need to test Linux sometimes, so I'd like to find an easy and OS-agnostic way to boot the PC after restoring a CloneZilla image.

I guess Grub is a better option than the Windows boot loader.

[littlebigman]

For those interested in doing the same thing:

1. Boot with a live CD
2. Mount /sda2 where the partition images are located
3. Copy the CD's /boot/grub/ into /sda2
4. Edit /sda2/boot/grub/menu.lst to include this section to boot Windows:

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

5. Run "grub", and type the following commands:

grub
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)

Reboot.