[SOLVED] Installing Grub from scratch to boot Windows?

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.

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?

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.

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:

Code:

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

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

Code:

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grub
root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)

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Reboot.