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#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE INSTALL#
#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE DOWNLOAD#
#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE WINDOWS#

Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+20 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 Running "embed /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 (hd0)". yesĬhecking if "/boot/grub/fat_stage1_5" exists. yesĬhecking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists.

The output is as below, which means you have successfully installed Grub Legacy.

If you want to use a directory under another name, use the –prefix parameter. Example: /aio/grub.

Enter the help setup command for more options. By default, Grub will look for files in /boot/grub and /grub.

If the partition is (hd1,0) the disk will be (hd1).

(hd0) is the disk containing the partition (hd0,0).

(hd0,0) is the partition containing the stage2 file.

Next, use the setup command to install.

There will be a black screen to use the commands. Use the find command to find the partition where you put the /boot/grub/stage2 file. You must always use lowercase letters for commands as well as directories and files.

Now, I will boot disk device in step 5 to continue, can use VirtualBox.

In item #7, check this box to keep the partition table information.

#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE INSTALL#

In the Destination Disk (1), select the disk you want to install Grub Legacy, either USB or HDD.

Now I will use BootICE to write grublegacy to MBR. See the screenshot below.

In the above command, I will merge these two files into a new file called grublegacy.

Merge stage1 and stage2 files into a single file to write to the MBR. Run the following command: cd /d G:\boot\grub.

Open this file with 7-Zip and extract the file in the data.tar\.\usr\lib\grub\x86_64-pc\ directory to the folder you created in step 2. We only need 3 files: stage1, stage2 and fat_stage1_5.

Create /boot/grub or /grub directory on the root of the drive where you want to install Grub Legacy. The drive needs to be formatted in FAT32, which does not support NTFS and exFAT.

#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE DOWNLOAD#

First, I will download the Grub Legacy binary from Ubuntu, the file name is grub_0.97-29ubuntu66_b.

#INSTALLING GRUB ON USB DRIVE WINDOWS#

Installing Grub Legacy from Windows as well as Linux is very easy. In this article, I just installed Grub Legacy to boot in Legacy BIOS, on an MBR disk. And its official version does not support GPT disks, but Gentoo (and other systems) have modified versions that support this. The official version of GRUB Legacy doesn’t support EFI booting however, through version 17, Fedora used a greatly modified version that includes EFI support. See more about this at rodsbooks. There is a bootloader that features the Grub Legacy and has a lot of improvements, it is Grub4dos. You can easily install Grub2, Grub4dos and other bootloaders such as Clover, Enoch with AIO Boot. So, Grub Legacy should only be used on older systems, or just for testing. The current version being developed is Grub2. Only bugfixes will be made so that GRUB Legacy can stil be used for older systems. GRUB Legacy is not actively developed any longer. You can easily install Grub Legacy on USB and HDD from Windows. Grub Legacy (Grub 0.97) is a very powerful boot loader, developed by GNU.