[oclug] Re: How do I hide Grub, or, Help with Domestic Diplomacy?

[GR Gaudreau]

On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 13:10 -0500, Ian! D. Allen wrote:
> Bill Case wrote:
> > I want to hide/eliminate the Linux boot loader on my wife's XP machine
> > after I install Linux -- but I want to be able to dual boot myself after
> > Windows XP is running.
> 
> Don't install a bootloader at all.  Install linux in a spare partition
> and when you want to boot Linux use a GRUB floppy disk (or CDROM) to boot
> from the spare partition.  You'll need to set up your machine so that
> it chooses to boot from floppy before hard drive, which is a security
> risk if someone leaves an infected floppy in your machine across a reboot.


[GR]   Just out of curiosity, is there as way of doing that with a CD
instead of a floppy? (In case someone doesn't have a floppy, for
example)