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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