Installing GRUB as the MBR on an ext3 formatted drive using winxp?

[John Summerfield]

Gareth Marsh wrote:
> I'm attempting a medialess install so I would prefer a solution that can 
> be executed from within xp.

Explain what you mean. Where do you expect linux to boot from?

>  
> Basically I just need to install GRUB under xp but can't find anyway to 
> do it. There's an app called grubinstall but that installs grub to an 
> ntfs partition and there's also something called wingrub but I'm having 

Part of grub lives in the boot sector, some lives in a partition.


> a little trouble using it (at boot it says it cannot find grbldr and it 
> doesn't create a grub.conf file).

What on earth have you done?