URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17929>
Summary: Manual instructions for making boot floppy do not
work
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: sparklight
Submitted on: Friday 10/06/2006 at 15:26
Category: Installation
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Ken Brooks
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 0.95
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release:
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Details:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy
tells this story:
# 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
#
Mine acts just like that, except it reports 202+1 records in and out.
However, at boot time:
"GRUB Loading stage2.Read Error"
and then the system hangs.
Tried on 3 different disks, including one freshly low-level formatted and
verified; thus I do not believe it is a genuine error on the disk.
The following URL also does not work:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html#q4
It describes a sequence of events involving grub's setup command.
At boot time:
"GRUB GRUB "
and the system hangs.
These are 1440 size diskettes, ext2 formatted where appropriate.
MY HARDWARE:
MSI Neo Platinum, nforce 3 motherboard
BIOS self-identified as:
Phoenix - Award Workstation BIOS v6.00PG
W7030NMS V2.1 111005 09:36:51
floppy drive: D395M3D (has been working normally)
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