How to install GRUB to MBR?

blade

blade

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How do you install GRUB to the MBR, what commands do I need to put in the Terminal.

Currently, I have the Vista bootloader, with XP; the Vista OS is on my first sata drive and is on the first partition. I tried typing in... "grub> install (sd0,0)", but to no avail
 
blade said:
How do you install GRUB to the MBR, what commands do I need to put in the Terminal.
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i've being searching through HWF for the commands and stuff that Addis was good enough to provide me with[ot]but i couldn't find them[/ot]you could also go through a tutorial like this and i think these are also relevant, this & this

Edit: [ot]this one uses GRUB not LILO[/ot]
 
blade said:
i have 2 drives though, a sata, and an ide, how is it suppose to know where exactly to install it if i jus put hda
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hda separates into hd = IDE hard disk, a = IDE hard disk number (a = IDE primary master, b = primary slave, c = secondary master, d = secondary slave) the number that appears after (e.g. hda1) is the partition number, partition number 5 (e.g. hda5) is always the extended partition (containing all logical partitions)[ot]i think SATA drive are listed as sda1 (e.g. this defines partition 1 on SATA disk 1[/ot]

BTW: so if you want to boot the SATA drive the MBR for that disk would be sda, on IDE the MBR is on hda (the MBR is the default location for the boot sector, although you can change the default by adding a partition number)
 
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