Hi adrian15, FC5_64 ======
> If you only want a grub floppy and you don't want to make it. Try > Super > Grub Disk ( http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/ ). When dded to a > floppy > and booted just press letter "c" to have a console. Whether after PC boots up the floppy just pressing "c" to start a console. Then what will be next steps. Would it be similar to starting grub, the bootloader, during booting HD? > How to build your own Grub floppy. > > Take a floppy disk (fat or ext2) > Delete its contents > Create /boot/ > Create /boot/grub/ > Copy from your pc /boot/grub/* to the floppy following is the content of; # ls -al /boot/grub/ total 207 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 21 15:53 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Apr 21 15:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Apr 20 15:15 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 Apr 20 15:15 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7328 Apr 20 15:15 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6592 Apr 20 15:15 ffs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 746 Apr 28 01:02 grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6592 Apr 20 15:15 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8032 Apr 20 15:15 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 20 15:15 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6752 Apr 20 15:15 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9056 Apr 20 15:15 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7028 Mar 1 12:41 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Apr 20 15:15 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102332 Apr 20 15:15 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Apr 20 15:15 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6144 Apr 20 15:15 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8768 Apr 20 15:15 xfs_stage1_5 * * * END * * * Whether copy all files to /boot/grub/ on the floppy? > Create (if it is not created) a device.map with the following line: > (fd0) /dev/floppy > or maybe > (fd0) /dev/fd0 Following is the content of; # cat /boot/grub/device.map # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/sda * * * END * * * Shall I delete "(hd0) /dev/sda" and add; (fd0) /dev/fd0 In my case "dev/fd0" is the floppy drive. > Run grub from a linux shell. > Type the following commands: > root (fd0) > setup (fd0) > quit I suppose doing it on console (Konsole if on KDE) after "su -". To run grub just type; # grub [Enter] > root (fd0) [Enter] > setup (fd0) [Enter] > quit If I'm wrong please correct me. Tks. I suppose no change will be made on the HD. I still don't have a clear picture how can the OS (FC5_64 in my case) on HD be started after booting up the floppy. TIA B.R. SL _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
