On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> But that's also the reason I installed GRUB: I need to load floppy
> images to install OSes without burning CDs. Following the documentation,
> this should be possible through chainloading ("chainloader=*<file>*),
> but I get either "Bad magic number" and lockup or "Boot error" or the
> load simply fails, depending on which image I use.
You may be forgetting to do a root=<device> command, as it passes this to
anything booted up as a default device. (If this command makes problems,
rootnoverify= instead of root= might fix it)
