Re: an alternative approach...

[David Balazic]

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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