adrian15 wrote: > J.Bakshi escribió: >> Andrian, Yesterday I checked just >> >> root (fd0) >> setup (fd0) >> >> with in grub shell and found that GRUB install stage1 in the floppy >> which in turn call the stage2 from the hard disk. >> So this is a way to place stage1 in floppy and this floppy is a computer >> specific as stage2 is in the hard disk. > > You have to improve your English :). > > This two commands should make a floppy that it is independent of the > hard disk contents. Are you sure that it calls the stage2 from the > hard disk?
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. 3> I enable the IDE support from the BIOS and booted the PC from floppy. This time I got the menu from grub 4> I repeated the #2 and #3 a no. of times and got the same result. Conclusion : If the floppy really had menu.lst it should show the menu when IDE support was disable. As I know that stage2 actually call menu.lst > > Are you asking... > > 1) A floppy that it is dependent from the hard disk? > > or are you asking... > 2) A floppy that it is NOT dependent from the hard disk? > > > 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