On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Lee Valentine wrote:
2. The -h option for grub-install said that there was a --root-directory
option, but not an option --boot-directory. I repeated the above script
using --root-directory instead of --boot-directory, and was given
cp: can not create regular file '/mnt/boot/boot/grub/crypto.lst': no
space left on device
Grub-install wrote extensively to the 3.5" diskette /dev/fd0
nonetheless.
Is this error message significant?
Sure. It's because GRUB releases can't fit on a floppy drive anymore. I
removed many modules from /usr/local/lib64/grub/i386-pc (back up the
directory), like all gcry_*, and it didn't complain about space...
5. Is it possible to install GRUB 2 on a diskette and have that diskette
actually boot the machine on which the diskette was created?
...but returned
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/floppy/boot --allow-floppy /dev/fd0
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
Auto-detection of a filesystem of /dev/fd0 failed.
Try with --recheck.
If the problem persists please report this together with the output of "/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe
--device-map="/mnt/floppy/boot/grub/device.map" --target=fs -v /mnt/floppy/boot/grub" to
<bug-grub@gnu.org>
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: Scanning for dmraid_nv RAID devices on disk
fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning fd0 for LVM.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk
fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk
fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid09 RAID devices on disk
fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: Scanning for mdraid1x RAID devices on disk
fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: scanning fd0 for LVM.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to /dev.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to v4l.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to by-path.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to vboxusb.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to 003.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to 002.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to 001.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to dri.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to disk.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to by-uuid.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to by-path.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: changing current directory to by-id.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: info: opening fd0.
/usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk.
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