Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

[J.Bakshi]

adrian15 wrote:
> J.Bakshi escribió:
>> adrian15 wrote:
>>> J.Bakshi escribió:
>>>> Here is the details which I did yesterday.
>>>>
>>>> 1> I have make a file system on the formatted  floppy with "mke2fs
>>>> /dev/fd0"
>>>>
>>>> 2> Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy.
>>>> The
>>>> PC booted from the floppy and displayed "GRUB" and nothing happened.
>>> And what did you do between 1 and 2?
>>
>> Ooff !! extremely sorry :-(
>>
>> I did
>>  root (hd0,2)
>> setup (fd0)
>>
>> (hd0,2) is the partition of my hard disk which have /boot/grub
>
> You seem not to listen to me. ;) I am going to copy-paste from another
> email that I sent to you before. If you have any doubts do not
> hesitate to ask them:
>
>
>
> Previous to the menu.lst you need to:
>
> Format to vfat or ext2 the floppy.
>
> Create there a /boot folder.
> Create there a /boot/grub folder.
>
> Copy stage1, stage2 and ( ext2fs_stage1_5 or fat_stage1_5 ) files to
> /boot/grub.
>
> (OPTIONALLY) Create a menu.lst in /boot/grub/menu.lst (in the floppy)
>
>
> The menu configuration is:
>
> title Install GRUB to a floppy
> root (fd0)
> setup (fd0)
> pause GRUB has been installed to the floppy
>
> ==========
>
> Now let's see... either you copy and paste the menu configuration to
> your hard disk menu.lst and when you boot you select this boot entry
> (with your floppy disk in the floppy drive).
>
> Either you run the root (fd0) and setup (fd0) from  a grub shell.
> pause command is optional.

Andrian,

I am already familiar with those steps.
But I am looking for a way which just make a formatted floppy boot-able
from menu.lst
And I am successful with

title create boot able floppy for this PC
root (hd0,2)
setup (fd0)
>
>
> adrian15
>
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