Ken Brooks wrote:
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.
That's normal. The manual is not redone whenever the size changes.
However, at boot time:
"GRUB Loading stage2.Read Error"
and then the system hangs.
This is *not* normal.
We all do as what you did and it works.
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.
Either it *is* the disk or the hardware.
May I suggest to take that disk and plug it into a few other machines ?
(It doesn't do any more damage than that you have to reboot)
If it boots nowhere, it's your disk (or your sources in /usr/lib/grub/
are not in good order).
If it does boot elsewhere, it's your hardware.
Keep us updated, please,
Uwe
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