Doug, I run
silverboxy:/home/rd# dd if=grub-0.97-i486-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync 2880+0 records in 2880+0 records out 1474560 bytes transferred in 96.615515 seconds (15262 bytes/sec) silverboxy:/home/rd# but the floppy did *not* boot. Is that one in etch broken, or did I do something stupid? I copied on the same floppy super grub-disk sgd_0.9528_english_floppy.img. Booting with this one worked well. Thanks, Rainer Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 02:16 schrieb Douglas Tutty: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:40:48AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Can it boot a grub-disk floppy? > > > > > > Can you burn a CD? Or, on that nice hdd, make a 256 MB (or 1 GB if its > > > a large disk) partition. Put the hd-media and the netinst.iso there > > > following the long-way instructions for the hd-media. Boot that > > > partition and you're away. > > > > > > Once things are installed, turn that partition into extra swap. > > > > Doug, > > > > thanks for the reply. What is a grub-disk? I think all other steps sound > > promising (I could probably even use the partition used right now as > > swap). > > A grub-disk is from the package grub-disk. It is a floppy image of, you > guessed it, a grub-disk. You can make one without this package on any > computer that has grub installed by following the directions in the grub > manual. The grub-disk image is just dd'd to a fresh floppy from any > computer where you have dd and the image file, i.e. you don't have to > have grub installed. > > The grub disk itself is just the grub boot loader with a default > menu.lst that you can alter if you want. You don't have to choose from > only the menu, you can enter the grub command line and go from there. > > Any boot loader, including grub, looks only at the blocks on a disk. It > knows nothing about raid or lvm. /boot can't be on lvm. The usual way > of dealing with this is to have one raid1 partition set for /boot and > another for lvm. This way both (all) disks in the raid1 array have the > same /boot layout. If you install grub the the MBR on both disks, you > can boot from either. You can get really fancy and put a boot line for > both /boot partitions in each menu.lst, however, my main board bios can > pop up a boot list where you choose which device to boot so I don't need > to get fancy. > > This is the advantage of grub over lilo; you can change __at_boot_time__ > what you boot and with what parameters (can be password protected). > > Doug. -- Rainer Dorsch Alzentalstr. 28 D-71083 Herrenberg 07032-919495 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
