Re: grub on fat32

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Nov 8, Domas Savickas wrote:
> How can I use grub to boot linux off fat32 partition?

The simplest way is to copy all grub files to the fat32 partition to
the directory c:\boot\grub or c:\grub, and then install grub the
normal way into the MBR, using the fat32 partition as root.

> distribution is loopback device based, so it's
> possible to load it using loadlin.exe, but the problem is
> that I can't load it from win2k. Maybe it'd possible to
> copy GRUB stage1 to file and boot linux using win2k's
> boot.ini?

I don't know what win2k's boot loader does.  If it just chainloads a
file it is possible to chainload grub, but not trivial.  

You need to install grub somewhere in the normal way, e.g to a linux
partition.  Then copy the boot sector from that partition with dd and
put it on the FAT32 disk, e.g.: dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/C/grubboot count=1
Then you can add grubboot to the boot.ini file.

Using stage1 from the grub distribution directly doesn't work.  The
grub installation process has to put the location of the next stage
into stage1.

  Jochen