Re: Unable to install GRUB on floppy

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Dec 31, Don Mayhew wrote:
> I have been trying to install GRUB on a floppy
> using the instructions found via info grub
> provided on my Mandrake 7.2 distro.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> In one place the instructions are:
>   $ mke2fs /dev/fd0
>   mount it, say at /mnt  (I used new dir /grubmnt)
>   copy stage1,stage2,menu.lst to /grubmnt/boot/grub
>   run command:
>     $ sbin/grub  --batch <<EOT   (I had to use /usr/sbin/grub)
>     root (fd0)
>     setup (fd0) 
>     quit
>     EOT
> 
>  When I do this, processing stops at attempt to do 'setup'
>  with error 'file not found'.

You should have given the full output of grub.  I guess, it is
e2stage1_5 which grub can't find.  But it should work nontheless.
Have you tried booting from that floppy?

> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> In another place the instructions say:
> 
>   # cd /boot/grub
>   # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
>   # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> 
> This seems to complete and make the floppy,
>  however when I try to boot with it
>  I just get:
>    stage1  stage2  Read error

It is important that you use a "clean" stage2 when you do it this way.
With "clean" I mean that it was never installed with the grub "setup"
or "install" command.  The installation process changes the first part
of stage2.

  Jochen