How to make a bootable floppy?

[Eric Potter]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 22:41 +0200, Johan wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:35:34 -0800
> Eric Potter <ecp62 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > I want to make a bootable floppy disk so I tried:
> > 
> > grub-install /dev/fd0
> > 
> > The error I got was:
> > 
> > /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
> >>>> here will be displayed all partitions that has stage1  (multi boot system)
> >>>> make sure that (fd0) is displayed...otherwise it won't work.
> grub> root (fd0)
> grub> setup (fd0)
> >>>>> Here will be displayed some info that will say yes and success..else  <error>.
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Johan Sch
> Registered linux user #333034
> May this be a good day for learning
> 

Thanks for the excellent tutorial.  However, the problem, I discovered,
was that a reference was missing from device.map.

I added to /boot/grub/device.map

(fd0)   /dev/fd0

I'm not counting this as a bug, because I didn't have a functioning
floppy drive when I installed Ubuntu.