Creating a bootable hard-disk image with Grub2
Here's a shell script for creating a bootable hard-disk image with Grub2 (v2.06). You need parted, kpartx and grub2. It's a derived version of original script here . # Create the actual disk image - 20MB dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img count=20 bs=1048576 # Make the partition table, partition and set it bootable. parted --script disk.img mklabel msdos mkpart p ext2 1 100% set 1 boot on # Map the partitions from the image file kpartx -a disk.img # sleep a sec, wait for kpartx to create the device nodes sleep 1 # Make an ext2 filesystem on the first partition. mkfs.ext2 /dev/mapper/loop0p1 # Make the mount-point mkdir -p /mnt # Mount the filesystem via loopback mount /dev/mapper/loop0p1 /mnt # Copy in the files from the staging directory # cp -r build/* /mnt # Create a device map for grub mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub echo "(hd0) /dev/loop0" > /mnt/boot/grub/device.map # Use grub2-install to actually install Grub. The options are: # ...