I tried to create 3 boot floppies each with another filesystem, the results are pasted in below. The DOS one didn't work at all.
I have 4 questions: 1 are the MANY error messages just betastuff or is there a cure for them? 2 what do I need to do to successfuly make the DOS floppy? 3 How come these floppies show about 1/4 free space but I cannot add so much as a spare menu file to the mounted filesystem? 4 what happens if I do not include --root-directory=/0/floppy or any such statement? I can't understand what the manual says about this option. TIA Using grub-install against a floppy #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 # mkdosfs /dev/fd0 # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /0/floppy # /usr/local/sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/0/floppy fd0 /usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `fd0'. Invalid device `fd0'. Try `/usr/local/sbin/grub-setup --help' for more information. # umount /dev/fd0 -------------Boot failed. Disk not bootable. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 # mkfs -t minix /dev/fd0u1440 # mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /0/floppy # /usr/local/sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/0/floppy fd0 /usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `fd0'. /usr/local/sbin/grub-probe: error: minix does not support UUIDs. You attempted a cross-disk install, but the filesystem containing /0/floppy/boot/grub does not support UUIDs. # umount /dev/fd0 ======================Booted OK # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 # mke2fs /dev/fd0 # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /0/floppy # /usr/local/sbin/grub-install --root-directory=/0/floppy fd0 cp: cannot create regular file `/0/floppy/boot/grub/diskboot.img': No space left on device ...but after a few seconds the floppy starts writing regardless # umount /dev/fd0 ======================Booted OK _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
