Bob Wittorf wrote:
I set my computer to boot from the CD drive first.
How did you do that?
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and each time the Grub Stage2 comes up and diverts control from the CD
I would guess that your problem is caused not by grub but by failure of your
computer to do what you say you asked it to
adrian15 wrote:
. Try Super Grub Disk ( http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/ ).
Haven't tried that yet although sounds interesting
How to build your own Grub floppy.
Take a floppy disk (fat or ext2)
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Run grub from a linux shell.
Type the following commands:
root (fd0)
setup (fd0)
quit
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). I have tried diong this in the past using one of two methods
but what I have found is that although the boot floppy works fine if
Peter Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:30 -0500, John Lumby wrote:
What actually determines from which hd* grub will load its grub.config?
Grub's device map and the BIOS are really the only parts that matter.
What happens is this:
1) you decide to install grub
2) you put
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason why it works in 99.99% is very simple: Even if the device
mapping
is wrong, GRUB boots up correctly if it is installed into the same drive as
stage2. This is because GRUB receives a drive number dynamically at boot
time, if it is the same
typically when I set up a new disk, I do it like this:
. existing disk with already-installed grub and root/boot ptns in hd0
. new empty disk in hd1
. create ptns on new disk and copy files to it
. reboot hd0 and in grub, bring up the command line:
.root (hd0,1)
.setup (hd1)
This works
