"P. M. D. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good day.
Good night! > I do not want to remove GoBack. Thus what I want to do is create a > diskette or a cd that will allow me to start-up linux. Is it as simple as > installing GRUB's stage1 to the diskette's boot sector? And if I do this, > will I still have GRUB's boot menu if I boot from the disk (where is the > boot menu data stored anyway; I'm guessing it's in /boot)? Also, provided > that this'll work, is it possible that the start-up diskette will be > read-only, so I can transfer an image of it to a CD and use that instead > (I do not want to allow diskette-based booting on my laptop)? First, I reckon that making a grub disk is: <verbatim src="/usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz"> cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 > /dev/fd0 using in place of /dev/fd0 the device that is for your floppy drive. </verbatim> Thus the above does not just involve catting stage1 to fd0's boot sector. Also, If you do this, I think you won't be able to use the bootdisk for anything else (except for booting.) I haven't explored making a bootdisk with a GRUB menu, though, as I'm fairly at home with the CLI. There's also a grub-disk package that carries bootdisk images for both floppies and CDs. <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
