Re: Booting a floppy image from grub

[Molle Bestefich]

Adam Bellinson wrote:
> 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? :)

Tried MEMDISK?
http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php