Re: mkboot -- "if GRUB is installed it does nothing .."

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:15:34PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:12:27PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue
disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a
thing of the past?

Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable?

If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for
us grub guys?

With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an
acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody.


Not sure about the initrd, though.

/boot on this machine does not have anything that looks like one.

.. config .. System.map .. and vmlinuz .. that's it.

Have they moved it to some other location?

Or is it that I wisely built in everything that's needed at boot time?

Your choice. Stock debian kernels have most things as modules that then
get loaded by udev as needed. This includes things that would otherwise
be needed to boot, so those modules get loaded from within the initrd.



To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either
following the directions in the docs

or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives
you.

Looks like I need to grab the grub manual.


Package grub-doc


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