hi..
this is my first thread... completed building linux from scratch with help of lfs7.2 book on my host ubuntu 12.4 .now i want to load the lfs source in qemu for that i followed this link https://github.com/xvisor/xvisor/blo...disk-howto.txt

1. Create disk image
2. Partitioning the disk
2.2 Creating primary partition
3 Setting up loopback device
3.2 Formatting with ext2
3.3 Mounting the virtual drive
4. Installing grub
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For this step please ensure that you have grub installed on your box

in this fourth step i dont know how to install in my virtual drive

i tried like sudo grub-install /dev/loop0
error as /dev/loop0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
how to solve this ........
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See these two posts. Between them I think you can get it installed.

http://superuser.com/questions/13095...to-an-img-file

http://ebroder.net/2009/08/04/instal...-a-disk-image/


And welcome to LQ.

i dont know wr i did mistake it also gives error that two links are good but can u give some other suggestions based on my link ...

need to load lfs root filesyatem on qemu for that i need to create a virtual harddisk for that i want to install grub in virtual disk i tried lot getting errors give me som more suggustions new to linux struggling to learn....

You don't need to create a virtual hard drive for qemu. Just dd the disk if you want and use it as a raw image. Otherwise you may try other tools like clonezilla or maybe partimage/gparted sort of copies or tar cpio and rsync.