How to make a bootable floppy?

[alex]

Johan wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:35:34 -0800
>Eric Potter <ecp62 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
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>>I want to make a bootable floppy disk so I tried:
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>>grub-install /dev/fd0
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>>The error I got was:
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>>/dev/fd0 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
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>Here is one I use and it works every time without fail for me.
>Be sure to be superuser.
>Put blank disk in 1.44mb drive.
>****This is for ubuntu on my system.
>umount /media/floppy0		make sure floppy is <not> mounted.
>mke2fs /dev/fd0
>mount /media/floppy0
>mkdir /media/floppy0/boot
>mkdir /media/floppy0/boot/grub
>cp /boot/grub/stage1 /media/floppy0/boot/grub
>cp /boot/grub/stage2 /media/floppy0/boot/grub
>grub
>grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
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>>>>>here will be displayed all partitions that has stage1  (multi boot system)
>>>>>make sure that (fd0) is displayed...otherwise it won't work.
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>grub> root (fd0)
>grub> setup (fd0)
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>>>>>>Here will be displayed some info that will say yes and success..else  <error>.
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>grub> quit
>cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /media/floppy0/boot/grub/
>umount /media/flopp0		Make sure the buffer is flushed and written to floppy0
>Leave the floppy in drive and reboot..grub menu display will look the same as when booting from HD.
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Thanks, Johan---------your method of making a boot floppy works fine on 
my computer.
I like to use aliases to make things like this easier and I think your 
procedure can be adapted to make an excellent
alias.

alex, the OF