GRUB Read-only Error

[Kienja Kenobi]

I would like to install GRUB into the MBR of my one and only physical hard drive. I currently run Windows XP SP2 and I would like to dual boot Windows with Linux using GRUB (And overwrite the current Windows MBR). However, when I attempt to install GRUB at the end of the Linux installation process, the GRUB installation gives this error: “mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/boot/grub’: Read-only file system”. I suspect this is the handy work of some sort of Windows junk that is locking up the MBR, but does anyone have any ideas or someway to fix this?

Thank you

[MikeTbob]

Did you create the partitions yourself during the install or did you let Linux create the partitions? If you created it yourself, did you actually create a partition named /boot?

Anyhoo, have a look at Supergrub CD
Super Grub Disk Webpage: Home Page

[Kienja Kenobi]

I created the partitions myself using G Parted. I created a 2GB partition with the Linux swap file system and a 5GB partition with the XFS file system for the root. Do I need to create a boot partition titled "/boot?" What size does it need to be and what file system should it have? During the Linux installation I skip the partition making and go straight to the partition mounting, and I am asked only for a root and swap. Do I use the "/boot" partition when I am asked where to install GRUB?

[Kienja Kenobi]

You were right! Thank you so very much! I created a 100MB boot partition for GRUB to install to and mounted it as the boot partition and everything is working perfectly now!