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Re: an alternative approach...
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David Balazic |
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Re: an alternative approach... |
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Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:53:30 +0200 |
Brian Sammon wrote:
>
> Alternatively, I could tell you what I'm trying to do and someone can tell
> me if/how that can be done. Hopefully, that will lead to a better
> understanding of things.
>
> I have a computer that doesn't have a floppy drive in it. It's a bit of a
> hassle to attach a (bootable) floppy drive. So I'm looking to create a
> grub installation that's very hard to screw up.
> My idea was to have the stage1 jump directly to the stage 2, which would
> be located in an unpartitioned section of the drive before the first
> partition.
Dn not put stuff in unallocated space, because the next program that
does the same thing, will overwrite your stuff.
This was discussed just a few weeks ago.
Create partition instead.
> The stage2 should look in a particular location on (hd0,0) , which would
> be a FAT filesystem, for the menu.lst file.
>
> Can I do something like this?
>
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