Having fought through making my GRUB boot floppy work I have a suggestion that perhaps others can use. I don't see this mentioned in the 'easy guide' or any of the FAQs - perhaps if the authors of either like the idea they can add it.
This was done by downloading the GRUB source, making both stages and using dd to copy them both to the floppy bootsector. When booting the first time, I really didn't know which partition to use since I've got so many I lose track of them all. What I did was to just take a guess and type: root=(hd0,8) grub responds with whether it could mount the partition or not, and if so what type it was. For me, this was 0x82 (the wrong one), so I repeat root=(hd0,6) grub now says it's mounted successfully type 0x83. Hmm - it's a linux partition but is it the right one? kernel=/[TAB] something I didn't expect at first! GRUB does filename completion, and shows me a directory listing of the root of the partition ... and I can see it's the wrong one. root=(hd0,7) kernel=/[TAB] And yes, now it's showing the correct listing so I can continue and boot to the right place. After repeating the root= stage many times on one attempt it started to report the partitions were too large for my BIOS. I just rebooted and this message went away and I was able to boot normally again. I know it's not elegant but a bit of practical exploration won out over theoretically calculating the right numbers in the first place. -dave -- | oOOooO / --| oOobodoO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / The wise man tells you where you have fallen | II / and where you may fall - Invaluable secrets.
