At Thu, 04 May 2006 13:20:31 -0400, John Lumby wrote: > > I want to make a grub boot floppy that is completely self-contained up to > the capability to present a prompt and accept and run any grub command (e.g. > setup). I have tried diong this in the past using one of two methods > but what I have found is that although the boot floppy works fine if the > same disk is in hd0 as was there when I created the floppy, if that disks is > not there and some other disk without the relevant stage files (stage 2 is > it?) is there instead, all that happens when I boot the floppy is the single > word > GRUB > appears on the console and then nothing. > > I can't remember exactly how I set up the floppy (actually I have two and > think I may have either > run setup (fd0) from a grub prompt while running grub from booting the > disk > from running system: run grub-install /dev/fd0 > I know I have tried both of these methods but not sure on which floppies > that I've tried > but I suspect that neither of these makes a completely self-contained boot > floppy. > > I am not asking for the final stage of finding a configfile on floppy - I > just want a full grub subcommand environment without requiring to read > anything from anywhere else. > > Can someone please tell me how.- preferably both legacy and new grub2 if > different.
The easiest way is to just download the grub floppy image from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97-i386-pc.ext2fs. Then you do: dd if=grub-0.97-i386-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 And you should have your bootable floppy with grub. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
