I want to install GRUB 2 on a CompactFlash card, which I will boot on
my Mini-ITX VIA C3 system for testing, by attaching the CF card to an
IDE-CF adapter.
Before I run grub-install, I wanted to get a confirmation that I'm
doing the right thing, so I don't end up wiping out my development
system's boot partition or something. Here's my setup:
Development workstation:
Running Linux.
Hard drives on /dev/hdXX and /dev/sdXX.
The CompactFlash card will appear as /dev/sdc or something.
(let's assume it's /dev/sdc)
Target system:
IDE controller - connected to IDE-CompactFlash adapter.
If I create one partition on the CF card, for GRUB, I assume I should
set up my grub.cfg to refer to it as (hd0,1) since this will only be
used on the TARGET SYSTEM, right?
Then on my development workstation I will do:
grub-install /dev/sdc
But will this affect my development workstation's "/boot" ? I want to
install only to my CompactFlash card; is this possible without messing
with my dev machine's filesystem?
If I have /dev/sdc1 (the CF card's partition) mounted
at /media/grubtest, can I just do
grub-install --root-directory=/media/grubtest /dev/sdc
Thanks!
Colin
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