grub: Installation
4 Installation
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In order to install GRUB as your boot loader, you need to first install
the GRUB system and utilities under your UNIX-like operating system
(⇒Obtaining and Building GRUB). You can do this either from the
source tarball, or as a package for your OS.
After you have done that, you need to install the boot loader on a
drive (floppy or hard disk) by using the utility 'grub-install' (⇒
Invoking grub-install) on a UNIX-like OS.
GRUB comes with boot images, which are normally put in the directory
'/usr/lib/grub/<cpu>-<platform>' (for BIOS-based machines
'/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc'). Hereafter, the directory where GRUB images
are initially placed (normally '/usr/lib/grub/<cpu>-<platform>') will be
called the "image directory", and the directory where the boot loader
needs to find them (usually '/boot') will be called the "boot
directory".
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