RE: Installing GRUB 2 on Windows only system

[Electuur Electuur]

 
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:17:29 -0700
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Installing GRUB 2 on Windows only system
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Jacques van Langen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have no experience with grub and little experience with Linux, but would
> > like to install GRUB 2 on a HD with Windows XP on the first partition and
> > Windows 7 on the second partition. There is no Linux on the HD. To install
> > it I use an Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD. I read the GNU GRUB 2 Manual, but there was
> > too little information for me to succeed installing GRUB 2. My main problem
> > is that I have not enough information on the meaning of the parameters from
> > grub-setup –h, and grub-install –h, and if it is possible at all, to install
> > GRUB 2 on a HD with no Linux.
> >
> > I have the following questions,
> > Where can I find an better explanation of the parameters and/or a better manual.
> >Would it help to read the manual from GRUB Legacy or is GRUB 2 completely different?
> > I use apt-get to install GRUB 2. Does this work with a Live CD?
> > Can you give me the sequence of commands that I should execute to install grub from I live CD on a Windows only system.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks Electuur.
> 
> To be honest, if all you're doing is booting windows you may as well
> just use the built in multi-boot support ntloader has already. It
> sounds like you just want something easy, and grub would not be 'easy'
> if you never install linux.

I forgot to CC address@hidden in my answer to Michael Evans. 
 
I don't want to use the ntloader because:
It messes around with drive letter assignment.
It doesn't have the functions I want, because I want to hide partitions I don't use.
I want to learn to use Linux, Xen and GRUB.
Maybe it is best to install Linux on the HD to make things easier.

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