Re: Creating a bootable floppy

[Greg Ward]

On 18 September 2001, Derrik Pates said:
> Make an MS-DOS filesystem on the floppy. Mount it

OK, no problem.  I made an ext2 FS, but whatever.

> and do "grub-install --root-directory=[mountpoint] '(fd0)'".

Here's where things fall apart:

  # grub-install --root-dir=/floppy '(fd0)'
  More than one install_devices?
  Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
  Install GRUB on your drive.

    -h, --help              print this message and exit
    -v, --version           print the version information and exit
    --root-directory=DIR    install GRUB images under the directory DIR
                            instead of the root directory.
    --grub-shell=FILE       use FILE as the grub shell.
    --force-lba             force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy
                            BIOS.
    --recheck               probe a device map even if it already exists.

  INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

  Reports bugs to <address@hidden>.

  # df /floppy/
  Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/fd0                  1412      1093       247  82% /floppy

This is GRUB 0.5.96.1 on a Progeny Debian 1.0 system.  (Progeny uses
GRUB as their default loader; I have no idea how much they tweaked it.)

Any ideas?  Should I upgrade to GRUB 0.9?  Looks like it's available
through the Debian archive.

        Greg
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