Re: problem booting from floppy

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:03:08 +0000 (UTC)

Thanks Lenard,

I'm getting warm....

>You can boot with the Fedora 1.0 CD into rescue mode and use chroot to
>create a new boot floppy; mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 'uname -r'
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>See 'man mkbootdisk' for the details
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Tried this and no luck. My fd is a usb floppy connected to a notebook
(with no internal floppy) . I also got some error message that it did
not recognize the uname argument.

I continued to try to make a boot disk but again it doesn't like the
device option, any suggestions?

My other complication for grub permanently is that I have fedora
installed on a usb connected harddrive with XP on the internal hard drive.

Any further suggestions most welcome, thanks

Jim

>I prefer to use a GRUB boot floppy, it's easy to make and simple to update
>when needed.
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>Basically, as root, from the console or xterm session;
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>(Starting with a blank formatted (msdos or ext2) floppy)
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>$ mount /dev/fd0
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>$ grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy /dev/fd0
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>$ cp /boot/initrd-<version_#>.img /mnt/floppy/boot/initrd-<version_#>.img
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>$ cp /boot/vmlinuz-<version_#> /mnt/floppy/boot/vmlinuz-<version_#>
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>$ cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /mnt/floppy/boot/grub/grub.conf
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>$ umount /dev/fd0
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