Boot with GRUB By this time you may be thinking, “Okay, GRUB has
got it goin' on. But do I have to keep booting from this lame
floppy all the time?” Of course not. Booting from floppy is for
weenies. The operation for installing GRUB on the master boot
record of your hard disk is similar to the creation of a GRUB
floppy. The one difference is that our floppy has all the
resources GRUB needs in one place. That is, the boot image,
support and configuration files are all on the floppy device MBR
and /boot/grub/ directory. In a hard disk setup, you can choose
where you want these resources to be. For example, you could set
up a /boot/grub directory on the first partition of your first
hard disk and copy all GRUB's files into it as we did in our
floppy setup. In our demonstration system, this would be the
Win98 partition, and you may choose to do it that way if you
want. But you can also set up the /boot/grub directory up in any
device/partition on your machine with a filesystem supported by
GRUB. In practice it i