[Cuperdon]

After a long hiatus with fedora usage. I decided to come back again and install it, because I feel that Linux can do better than XP due to a lot of, perhaps, useless processes and huge memory hog.

But it has long discouraged me to do this because of its horrible GRUB. Everytime I remove Linux and then GRUB, I have to go through the process of rewriting the MBR with the XP CD. I am tired of that.

I want to just use a floppy disk for grub. Insert it in drive so the BIOS read it first and boot Linux/Fedora. If not in drive, it boots XP normally.
At least that's how I visualize it, if that's not really how it works.

But I wonder, how am I supposed to do this?
When installing Fedora 9, do I click 'No' when it asks do you want to write GRUB to your harddrive?
Then after installation is completed, I'd boot up the disc, go to recovery/advanced and copy stage1 grub to floppy. I'll follow this: GNU GRUB Manual 0.97
However my concern is is GRUB going to be in the /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc (which should be my Linux partition if I am not mistaken)?

Please enlighten me here with the correct procedures, thank you

[Jonathan183]

If you don't want to install Grub to the MBR then I suggest you install it to the root partition of your Linux install. That way your Windows boot will not be affected.
You should be able to boot from a live CD and install grub to a floppy drive. You could try the SuperGrub CD which will allow you to boot Linux direct as well as fix Linux and Windows boot issues.

Ed: I don't remember installing Grub to a floppy drive (except using SUSE Yast bootloader options - but thats quite a while ago) ... I just use Supergrub to fix the boot issue - Windows or Linux.