John Lumby wrote:
I want to make a grub boot floppy that is completely self-contained up
to the capability to present a prompt and accept and run any grub
command (e.g. setup).
Can someone please tell me how.- preferably both legacy and new grub2 if
different.
John
This is only for grub legacy. About grub2 I think you should wait till
there's something stable.
If you only want a grub floppy and you don't want to make it. Try Super
Grub Disk ( http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/ ). When dded to a floppy
and booted just press letter "c" to have a console.
Super Grub Disk is also available as a cdrom.
And it is not a simple Grub Disk. It has a GUI.
How to build your own Grub floppy.
Take a floppy disk (fat or ext2)
Delete its contents
Create /boot/
Create /boot/grub/
Copy from your pc /boot/grub/* to the floppy
Create (if it is not created) a device.map with the following line:
(fd0) /dev/floppy
or maybe
(fd0) /dev/fd0
I don't know right now which is the most usual device name for the
floppy drive.
Run grub from a linux shell.
Type the following commands:
root (fd0)
setup (fd0)
quit
And you're done. You do have the grub floppy.
adrian15
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