Thanks for the help. I'd just like to let anyone that's interested know that GRUB works fine off a hard drive FAT16 partition. It didn't work initially due to an embarrassing blunder of mine. I didn't set the RAMDISK size in menu.lst correctly :-)
On Friday 07 February 2003 05:06, Simon Blake wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:37:48PM -0600, Spiro Philopoulos said: > > BTW, thanks to Simon Blake for his GRUB mini-howto. > > You're most welcome. > > > Procedure used for GRUB (in case it's useful for solving the problem): > > > > - Partition the HD. 100MB FAT16 partition is first partition on the > > drive. - Format the partitions. > > - Install an MBR using 'fdisk /MBR' from DOS boot disk (GRUB wouldn't > > work otherwise) > > Hmm. I've never had to do this - grub installs fine for me on compact > flash drives, without needing to fdisk on an MBR first. > > > - Install GRUB stage binary images in /boot/grub/ on FAT partition, & > > edit menu.lst. > > - Install GRUB using the GRUB boot floppy: > > root (hd0,0) > > setup (hd0) > > This sounds to me like you might have LBA/CHS dive geometry problems. > How big is the actual hard drive? A procedure I've found works pretty > well for me is: > > Configure your target disk as primary master > > Configure another HD with the master LRP files as secondary master, > booting into DOS. > > Have a Grub floppy available. > > Configure the BIOS of the machine to boot floppy->hdd0->hdd1 > > Leave the floppy out, assuming there's no boot sector on the new disk, > it'll boot dos off your master disk, and it will become C: in DOS. > > if the new disk needs FDISKing, then do so (generally compact flash > comes with a dos file system, so I don't bother), reboot, run > > format /s /u > > on the new D: drive. Copy LRP files across, copy menu.lst, stage1 and > stage2 to D:\grub. You don't need stage1_5 (or at least, I've never > used it). > > stick in the floppy, reboot off it, run the grub installer as above. > > This seems to work well for me because lots of bios's seem to setup the > primary master differently from the secondary master - presumably > because it expects to have to boot off the primary master. So muck > around with your LBA settings in your BIOS, and see if that helps. > > YMMV, of course :-) > > Cheers > Si ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
