Floppy boot loader--how is it done?
From: trncyng (trncyng_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/28/04
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Date: 27 Jun 2004 23:32:11 -0700
During a general SUSE 9.1 install from scratch, when one reaches the
part about Booting, and if one specifies Boot Loader Location as
/dev/fd0, at some point it will prompt for a floppy and write *just*
the floppy's boot sector. It doesn't touch the rest of the floppy.
Booting off this floppy will start SUSE correctly.
My question is, what does it write to the floppy's boot sector? Is
this using GRUB? How does one repeat this manually from command line?
The examples I usually see are those that require you to make a file
system on the floppy and copy the stage1 and stage2 files from the
hard disk to the floppy.
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