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Installing grub in an img file

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I am trying to create a bootable img file for use as a virtual box disk. How can I install grub to make the img file bootable?

posted Aug 2, 2013 by Natarajan Venkatraman

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http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Making-a-GRUB-bootable-CD_002dROM.html
commented Aug 2, 2013 by Salil Agrawal

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It might be simpler booting that image in virtualbox/kvm from a livecd and do the usual stuff from there (chroot, grub-install etc).

answer Aug 3, 2013 by anonymous
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