> Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue > disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a > thing of the past? > > Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? > > If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for > us grub guys?
With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody. To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either following the directions in the docs or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives you. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
