Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?

[Stephen Liu]

Hi adrian15,

Tks for your advice.

> Here go instructions.
> 
> 1) bunzip2 sgd_0.9354_mothers_day_preview.img.bz2
> 2) Put a non-valuable floppy on your floppy drive.
> 3) dd if=./sgd_0.9354_mothers_day_preview.img.bz2 of=/dev/fd0

A boot floppy created as advised.

It booted the PC, a FC5_64 box.  During booting following warnings
displayed;
- Error 14 : file not found
  Boo 'boot /sgd if no knoppix file available'

- Error 23 Error while parsing number
  Booting '2'


At the starting screen, highlighted "Boot From CDRom Drive" and pressed
[Enter]

The LiveCD on the CDRom can't not be booted.


I have no idea how to boot the HD, a SATA II disc.

# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
....
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb noapic
quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5.img
* End *


# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        1734    13823932+  83  Linux (/root)
/dev/sda3            1735        3008    10233405   83  Linux (/home)
/dev/sda4            3009        9729    53986432+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            3009        3262     2040223+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris


B.R.
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