On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:40, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the catchy ’Subject:’ above, I am not sure at this point > whether it is appropriate. > > I plan to make extensive changes to a multi-boot environment and > I looked in ‘GNU GRUB Manual 1.99~beta0’ for a way to create a CD/DVD > that would reflect the state of my grub environment, (including my > /boot/grub/menu.cfg) that would let me boot the system as if I was > booting from the HD. > > My understanding is that the correct procedure is described in section > 3.2 of the above manual: Making a GRUB bootable CD-ROM. >
You can take a look at grub-mkrescue shell script in utils dir to find out how to create a bootable grub2 cd. > The first step specifies the following: > > | Copy the file stage2_eltorito: > | > | $ cp /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub > > I looked on the ubuntu 10.10 system where my grub environment happens to > live and was unable to find any file named ‘stage2_eltorito’ anywhere on > the system and definitely not in the above directory. > > I have just downloaded a tarball of grub-1.99~rc1, and a ‘find’ command > on the untarred tree did not return any positives either. > > Is this file part of another package that complements grub? > > Is the documentation in the process of being updated? > > Am I missing something? > > If the above procedure is not longer current, please let me know how > I could create a bootable copy of my current grub environment, > preferably on a CD or DVD, so that I could use it as a simple backup > solution in the event I am no longer able to boot my systems from the > hard drive. > > Thanks, > > cj > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel