I'd like to make a Grub CD Boot Disk. I'm about to start messing around with some new linux installs and would like to have a back up grub. I only have a cd/dvd dive no floppy.

Section 3.4 of this Grub manual explains how to create a Grub CD.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...ble-CD_002dROM

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Steve Stites

Here's instructions from the grub manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...le-CD-ROM.html

Also, IIRC sidux has grub on it already, i.e. you can get to a grub prompt as a menu option on the sidux livecd. You can also use live cds to restore an overwritten grub from a prior linux installation. See, for example:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=grub

If you want to make a bootcd that will boot directly into your present linux installation in case grub gets messed up, here's a ubuntu tutorial on that subject which can be applied generally to any linux distro:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...highlight=grub

Some distros include a script to generate a bootcd for you which will bypass a lot of the labor involved in the above ubuntu howto. For example, you can generate an iso for a bootcd in mandriva by running as root:

# /sbin/mkrescue --iso

And with some, like opensuse you can use the install dvd to boot the system even if grub gets overwritten. Check the documentation for your specific distro.

Thanks guys, think I found a better site.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Sys...fig/MakeBootCD