Re: Is it a BUG or it is me.?

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello,

only for trying, use the command line

        cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0

With friendly regards
Christoph P.



"G. Arena" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to create a GRUB boot floppy as per "The GRUB manual"
> The first line: dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> works and loads on the floppy apparently properly.
> The second line: dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> gives the error message: /dev/fd0, Invalid argument.
> Can anybody HELP me.?
> G. Arena address@hidden
> 
> My system;
> 500 MHz AMD K6-II, ASUS P5A-B MB
> BIOS:
> Instalation: Mandrake 8, KERNEL 2.4.3   (Same condition experienced
> with Caldera 2.4, KERNEL 2.2.14

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