Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks every body for input especially Mike McCarty. Here are the complete instructions for Debian 3.1 with 2.4.27-2-386 kernel: 1. Create a floppy disk so that you can boot into the grub environment by following : - insert floppy - cd

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task. Syslinux is much easier to set up, and although LILO is hard to

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task. To what task? His

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Felipe Sateler
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. I find it easier using grub-floppy (which comes with grub). From it's man page: grub-floppy - program to do build a generic grub boot disc DESCRIPTION grub-floppy is a program to build a generic grub boot

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Felipe Sateler wrote: Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. I find it easier using grub-floppy (which comes with grub). From it's man page: grub-floppy - program to do build a generic grub boot disc DESCRIPTION grub-floppy is a program to

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me. Thanks every body for input especially Mike McCarty. Here are the complete instructions for Debian 3.1 with 2.4.27-2-386 kernel: 1. Create a floppy disk so that you can boot into the grub environment [snip]

Re: Making GRUB bootable floppy for emergency and hence then booting up your Debian System... Useful in emergency

2006-04-05 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Mike McCarty wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task. To what task? [...] Oops, I should'be read the OP more closely :) -- To