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Re: Creating a bootable floppy
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Greg Ward |
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Re: Creating a bootable floppy |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:41:38 -0400 |
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On 18 September 2001, Derrik Pates said:
> Make an MS-DOS filesystem on the floppy. Mount it
OK, no problem. I made an ext2 FS, but whatever.
> and do "grub-install --root-directory=[mountpoint] '(fd0)'".
Here's where things fall apart:
# grub-install --root-dir=/floppy '(fd0)'
More than one install_devices?
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help print this message and exit
-v, --version print the version information and exit
--root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR
instead of the root directory.
--grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell.
--force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy
BIOS.
--recheck probe a device map even if it already exists.
INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
Reports bugs to <address@hidden>.
# df /floppy/
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/fd0 1412 1093 247 82% /floppy
This is GRUB 0.5.96.1 on a Progeny Debian 1.0 system. (Progeny uses
GRUB as their default loader; I have no idea how much they tweaked it.)
Any ideas? Should I upgrade to GRUB 0.9? Looks like it's available
through the Debian archive.
Greg
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- Creating a bootable floppy, Greg Ward, 2001/09/18
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Derrik Pates, 2001/09/18
- Re: [Bug-grub] Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Jason Thomas, 2001/09/18
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy,
Greg Ward <=
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Derrik Pates, 2001/09/19
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Greg Ward, 2001/09/20
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Adrian Phillips, 2001/09/21
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Greg Ward, 2001/09/21
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Adrian Phillips, 2001/09/21
- Re: Creating a bootable floppy, Gordon Matzigkeit, 2001/09/22