title: How can I install grub4dos to the MBR?
body: <p>For about a couple of years I've been using Supergrub from a USB to boot. After the first prompt, I select 'boot manually', then 'operating systems', then finally Windows or Linux -- very cumbersome.
  I must have installed grub once before, but now its a problem:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Using grub4dos, I have just now created a USB under puppy linux live (version Fat Dog) which works OK. This shows me that my basic method is OK. I want to transfer what I did to the USB to the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the hard drive.</li>
  <li>Currently, when I boot without any of the many boot aids I've created, it goes to grub-rescue with the message: 'Unable to find /boot/grub2/I386-pc/normal.mod', not a new thing according to the internet.</li>
  <li>Here is the nub of the problem: When I try to write the MBR using grub4dos under the live Fat Dog version, it tells me that the partition containing Windows is mounted read-only (ro). Persisting fails.</li>
  <li>I have tried 2 other puppy linuxes: Quirky and Lupu.528. All show the same behavior. With nothing previously mounted, I issue 'mount -o rw /dev/sda1 /mnt'. The resulting mount table shows sda1 mounted as ro. Trying unmounting, then remounting does not change anything.</li>
  <li>In trying to install it using Windows, rather than Linux, the instruction is to use 'bootlace.exe'. But that program refuses to run on a 64-bit machine. But even a 32-bit compatibility fix won't work: its messages say 16-bit. Have not tried any compatibility solutions -- hoping for an easier path.</li>
  <li>While there may be other strategies for getting a good grub boot onto my hard drive, I seem to understand this a bit.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>There it is. It seems like a catch-22, but I don't believe it. Hundreds (or thousands) of folks have done this. There must be something I am missing or just do not know.</p>