Again, GRUB boot floppy
alex
aradsky at ne.rr.com
Mon Jun 11 15:19:30 UTC 2007
I recently posted "GRUB boot floppy" and received some suggestions but
the only one that comes closest to actually creating a working grub boot
floppy is:
# cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
I couldn't get it to work in the original form. In the first place,
there wasn't a track directory track like /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
First, I formatted the floppy # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
and then the following:
#cd /boot/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
196+1 records in
196+1 records out
100522 bytes (101kB) copied 10.0162-seconds, 10.0kB/s
When I start the computer, the floppy runs and I get a notice
GRUB loading stage 2
followed by----"Minimum BASH-like editing supported"
The TAB key displays a menu of commands;
This is as far as I can go-----I have no idea what to do from here
To avoid the need to do BASH editing, I suspect that there should be
something added to:.
#cd /boot/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
196+1 records in
196+1 records out
100522 bytes (101kB) copied 10.0162-seconds, 10.0kB/s
I hope I presented my problem clearly.
alex
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