Boot bootmanager - and HPFS GRUB

1) Does anybody know how to boot bootmanager? (I mean, without
installing it to a real primary partition?)

My conjecture is that it may work from a virtual hard drive. If
so, then I would install bootmanager to a virtual hard drive (e.g.,
from DOS), then load the drive image using MEMDISK (or Grub4dos),
and "boot from a partition on this harddrive".

Hmm, I see problems: one is that this boot would use the EXISTING
information from the "real drives"; but how would one WRITE this
information? I suppose FDISK would not allow me to write the boot
options if it cannot see BootManager installed...

The second problem is that creation of this virtual drive MIGHT mix
up drive-letter assignment. But it should not if BootManager is
the only primary partition on the virtual drive...

2) Does anybody has working HPFS-Stage1.5 for GRUB (one which would
allow GRUB to load from HPFS partition)...

Thanks,
Ilya
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