Re: First test...

• To: trax@abaconet.com.ar (root)
• Subject: Re: First test...
• From: stephen clawson <sclawson@fast.cs.utah.edu>
• Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:10:25 -0600 (MDT)
• Cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
• In-Reply-To: <37C80344.C048E0FB@abaconet.com.ar> from "root" at Aug 28, 99 12:41:56 pm
• Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

root has been quoted as saying:
> Thanks for the help, but the file created with mklinuximage still
> doesn't work. And with GRUB I got a "grub-floppy" file but I don't
> know what to do with that, and I got the complete GRUB (compiled)
> but I don't know how to put it on a disk, wich one I should use?
> Thanks for all...

     The instructions are in the grub info file, at least for the
version of grub that I've got (GNU GRUB 0.5.92).

     Anyway, it's pretty simple:

	     dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
	     dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1

     You've now got a bootable grub floppy.


steve

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