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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). There are two ways of doing that - either
 using the utility `grub-install' ( Invoking grub-install) on a
 UNIX-like OS, or by running GRUB itself from a floppy. These are quite
 similar, however the utility might probe a wrong BIOS drive, so you
 should be careful.
 
    Also, if you install GRUB on a UNIX-like OS, please make sure that
 you have an emergency boot disk ready, so that you can rescue your
 computer if, by any chance, your hard drive becomes unusable
 (unbootable).
 
    GRUB comes with boot images, which are normally put in the directory
 `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc'. If you do not use grub-install, then you need
 to copy the files `stage1', `stage2', and `*stage1_5' to the directory
 grub-set-default::) if you intend to use `default saved' (
 default) in your configuration file. Hereafter, the directory where
 GRUB images are initially placed (normally `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc')
 will be called the "image directory", and the directory where the boot
 loader needs to find them (usually `/boot/grub') will be called the
 "boot directory".
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