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

[Bill Case]

Thanks to Rob Woolley, Ian! D. Allen, GR Gaudreau and Mike.

Big forehead slap -- "Of course"

Will install Linux and use grub to boot from floppy.

Regards Bill


On Sun, 2005-13-03 at 18:18 -0500, oclug-request at lists.oclug.on.ca
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.
> 
> -- 
> -IAN!  Ian! D. Allen   Ottawa, Ontario, Canada