I want to install grub stage 1 and 2 files into my HD by using dd. I
know stage1 going into the MBR no problem. But there must be a jump to
stage2. Where should I install stage 2 ?

There is one way that should work: with the standard 63 sectors /
track, grub installs the filesystem specific stage1.5 in the sectors
following the MBR on the first track. The stage1.5 understands the
filesystem, so it can find stage2 by name, not hardware address. So
saving the first 63 sectors should do what you want. The code in the
MBR will point to stage1.5, and stage1.5 will find stage2 by accessing
the filesystem.
I'd experiment with a USB stick first, before trying this on an
important disk.

In article <1br5upunfh.fsf at (no spam) babs.wb.pfeifferfamily.net>,
Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer at (no spam) cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
:
:Verify that I'm right on this, but I believe the standard grub install
:process does make a backup of the old MBR.

No, it (GNU GRUB 0.97) doesn't, at least nowhere that I can find.
You're probably remembering what LILO did. Really, more than just the
MBR would need to be saved. Both NTLDR and GRUB store boot code in the
free sectors following the MBR in the first track, so that data would
have to be saved and restored as well if you wanted to undo the GRUB
install.