adrian15 wrote: > J.Bakshi escribió: >> adrian15 wrote: >>> J.Bakshi escribió: >>>> Here is the details which I did yesterday. >>>> >>>> 1> I have make a file system on the formatted floppy with "mke2fs >>>> /dev/fd0" >>>> >>>> 2> Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy. >>>> The >>>> PC booted from the floppy and displayed "GRUB" and nothing happened. >>> And what did you do between 1 and 2? >> >> Ooff !! extremely sorry :-( >> >> I did >> root (hd0,2) >> setup (fd0) >> >> (hd0,2) is the partition of my hard disk which have /boot/grub > > You seem not to listen to me. ;) I am going to copy-paste from another > email that I sent to you before. If you have any doubts do not > hesitate to ask them: > > > > Previous to the menu.lst you need to: > > Format to vfat or ext2 the floppy. > > Create there a /boot folder. > Create there a /boot/grub folder. > > Copy stage1, stage2 and ( ext2fs_stage1_5 or fat_stage1_5 ) files to > /boot/grub. > > (OPTIONALLY) Create a menu.lst in /boot/grub/menu.lst (in the floppy) > > > The menu configuration is: > > title Install GRUB to a floppy > root (fd0) > setup (fd0) > pause GRUB has been installed to the floppy > > ========== > > Now let's see... either you copy and paste the menu configuration to > your hard disk menu.lst and when you boot you select this boot entry > (with your floppy disk in the floppy drive). > > Either you run the root (fd0) and setup (fd0) from a grub shell. > pause command is optional.
Andrian, I am already familiar with those steps. But I am looking for a way which just make a formatted floppy boot-able from menu.lst And I am successful with title create boot able floppy for this PC root (hd0,2) setup (fd0) > > > adrian15 > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joydeep Bakshi, Linux System Admin Kolkatainfoservices Pvt Ltd, 23A Royd Street, Kolkata 700016, India Work Phone 91 033 40014784 http://infoservices.in/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub