On Friday 21 October 2005 11:24 am, adrian15 wrote: > Let's do the following with Linux: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=./blank.img count=1 bs=446 > dd if=./blank.img of=/dev/hda
You must not forget the last 2 bytes as well (the signature). > My first instict, my first thought was to do: > > install p /boot/grub/blank.img INTO (hd0) It is not a good idea to reuse install for this purpose, because install does much more than just copying. > 1) When Grub embeds an stage1 image into the MBR does it copy it into > the 1st 466 bytes or not? And... why its size is 512 bytes instead of 466 > bytes as in my scheme? It is not only the first bytes, but also the last bytes. > 2) Can I make a fake blank.img which is approved as a good grub stage1 by > grub itself? Possible, but not the right way. The right way is to add a different command for it. However, since this is a new feature, this won't be included in GRUB Legacy. Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
