Re: [Bug-grub] Re: grub floppy

[Jason Thomas]

well that made the boot floppy but it doesn't work.

it just starts up and prints GRUB that's it.

if I use the dd method to create boot floppy it works.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:38PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> that worked fine.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:11:02PM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
> > Does this patch fix your problem?
> > 
> > Index: ChangeLog
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/ChangeLog,v
> > retrieving revision 1.424
> > diff -u -r1.424 ChangeLog
> > --- ChangeLog       2001/07/13 08:02:04     1.424
> > +++ ChangeLog       2001/07/13 08:07:44
> > @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> > +2001-07-13  OKUJI Yoshinori  <address@hidden>
> > +
> > +   * util/grub-install.in (convert): Recognize the naming scheme
> > +   for Linux devfs floppy devices. Reported by Jason Thomas
> > +   <address@hidden>.
> > +   
> >  2001-07-07  OKUJI Yoshinori  <address@hidden>
> >  
> >     * netboot/compile: New file. This was also missing... How many
> > Index: util/grub-install.in
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/grub/grub/util/grub-install.in,v
> > retrieving revision 1.27
> > diff -u -r1.27 grub-install.in
> > --- util/grub-install.in    2001/02/28 11:19:39     1.27
> > +++ util/grub-install.in    2001/07/13 08:07:44
> > @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
> >                               -e 's%/part[0-9]*$%/disc%'`
> >     tmp_part=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's%.*/[sh]d[a-z]\([0-9]*\)$%\1%' \
> >                               -e 's%.*/fd[0-9]*$%%' \
> > +                             -e 's%.*/floppy/[0-9]*$%%' \
> >                               -e 's%.*/\(disc\|part\([0-9]*\)\)$%\2%'`
> >     ;;
> >      gnu*)
> 
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