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Booting a floppy image from grub


From: Adam Bellinson
Subject: Booting a floppy image from grub
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:39:14 -0400

Hi guys.

BeOS's personal distribution comes with a floppy image that you can write to
a disk with dd or rawrite. It is this disk that you then use to boot off of.
All it does is search your hard drives for the 500mb beos "partition file"
which resides on a vfat/ntfs/ext2 partition, and boots that.

It is very annoying - especially with my tiny 1" laptop with no integrated
floppy - to have to insert the floppy each time I boot. I was thinking: is
there a way in which I could simply drop the floppy.img to my /boot, and
have grub boot it somehow? I'm not even sure that this is technically
possible. Could somebody give me a hint? :)

Thanks a lot guys. Grub is a great bootloader. :)

Adam



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