Re: [Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

[Michel Catudal]

Le 2012-02-07 06:39, Maurice Batey a écrit : On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:24 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote: You didn't understand what I said. I know! :-( The xosl install that I have runs off a floppy diskette which has been formatted to PC DOS. You should be able to find dos bootable image on the net. xosl has a nice graphic install. Do you have a step-by-step description of how to create such floppy, please? (1st problem is: what do you mean by 'formatted to PC DOS'? Exactly that, formatted with PC Dos boot on it. I don't think that you can buy PC Dos anymore. You can get freedos boot disk. Even a DRDOS, win 95 or win 98 boot disket would work. They don't seem to have a boot disk with the new freedos 1.1, If you have a small partition you can install freedos on it. http://www.freedos.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/ Write a disk image to the floppy? Presumably not simply --> FAT32, as the disk will be booted. Slackware provides programs to do that, some that run under dos, windows and Linux You don't have FAT32 on a floppy, it's too small, its FAT16. http://www.bootdisk.com/helpdesk.htm What files need to be found and put on the floppy? Where from?) http://sourceforge.net/projects/xosl/files/xosl/xosl%20%201.1.5/ For boot the minimum number of files. On PC DOS there is some hidden files and command.com With a minimum number of files you can still have room for a backup of the MBR. With a win 95 boot that should be possible also. It gets too big with a win98 boot. Ideally you would have a partition with freedos and a boot disk in case the MBR gets whacked. Your freedos partition needs to be less 2G or smaller. On my computer I first partitioned the disk with fdisk with a SuSE boot CD. I then installed free dos michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ dir /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/ total 1276 drwxrwxrwx  2 michel michel   4096 12 fév  2011 . drwxrwxrwx 29 michel michel   4096 12 fév  2011 .. -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel   4096 12 fév  2011 BOOTITEM.XDF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 16 fév  2000 CURR_MBR.XCF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 26 nov  1999 DEFAULT.MBR -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel   7936 24 aoû  1999 DEFAULT.XFF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel   8192  1 jui  2000 EXTRA.XFF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  24553 23 déc  2000 INSTALL.EXE -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    440 23 déc  2000 IPL06.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    440 23 déc  2000 IPL06LBA.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    440 23 déc  2000 IPL0B.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    440 23 déc  2000 IPL0BLBA.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 23 déc  2000 IPLS.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 23 déc  2000 IPLSLBA.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel   2333 23 déc  2000 NOTES.TXT -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 12 fév  2011 ORIG_MBR.XCF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel 403462 12 fév  2011 PARTIMG.BIN -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  60684  8 déc  2000 SBMINST.EXE -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 12 fév  2011 SBM_IPL0.XCF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  31828 24 aoû  1999 SPLASHLG.XBF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel    512 12 fév  2011 XOSLDATA.XDF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel 401408 12 fév  2011 XOSLIMG.FS -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  19970 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG0.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG1.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG2.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG3.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG4.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  17011 23 déc  2000 XOSLIMG5.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel   7820 23 déc  2000 XOSLLOAD.XCF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  31828 24 aoû  1999 XOSLLOGO.XBF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  22500 24 aoû  1999 XOSLWALL.XBF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 27 fév  2000 XRPART00.XXF -rwxrwxrwx  1 michel michel  32768 27 fév  2000 XRPART01.XXF michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ du /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/ 1272    /mnt/freedos/FDOS/XOSL/ michel@catudal ~/Téléchargement/temp $ df Sys. fich.     1K-blocks     Util. Disponible Uti% Monté sur rootfs         481481584 182256920  294405916  39% / udev               10240       432       9808   5% /dev /dev/sda10     481481584 182256920  294405916  39% / rc-svcdir           1024        84        940   9% /lib64/rc/init.d cgroup_root        10240         0      10240   0% /sys/fs/cgroup shm              2027500        88    2027412   1% /dev/shm /dev/sda7         118656     50709      61925  46% /boot /dev/sdb10     376508104  33424476  324237416  10% /home/michel/vm_files /dev/sdb9      523733076 387468304  110050372  78% /mnt/mageia /dev/sdb7      523733076 353900864  143617812  72% /mnt/sl6 /dev/sda2        2084360    219800    1864560  11% /mnt/freedos Michel -- For OS/2 and Linux Software visit http://home.comcast.net/~mcatudal