Re: usb hp floppy drive recognition fedora 4 installation

From: P Ruetz (parmailbox-news_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/25/05

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    Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:19:07 GMT

    "Lenard" <Lenard@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
    news:PRCTe.1262$mj1.1086@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
    > panku88@gmail.com wrote:
    >
    >
    > Boot into Linux and copy the boot image from the first sector of your
    > boot partition. You'll want to take 512 bytes of this partition once,
    > and write it out to a file called bootsect.lnx. The entry should look
    > like:
    >
    > dd if=/dev/hdXy of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
    >
    > Move that file onto your c:\ drive and edit boot.ini, adding the
    > following line:
    >
    > c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
    >
    > Note: /dev/hdXy is your Linux boot partition, for example /dev/hda2

    This did not work for me with CentOS (maybe that is the problem). I have
    CentOS 4.1 in /dev/sdb7 (in an extended partition if that is important).
    When I look at the bootsect.lnx file (od -h) produced above it is all zeros.

    I tried all of the partitions on /dev/sdb and none of them worked. /dev/sdb
    produced a file that resulted in booting to the diagnostics partition on
    /dev/sda1 (?).

    sdb1 -> NTFS partion
    sdb5 -> FAT partition
    sdb6 -> swap partition
    sdb7 -> Linux partition

    The NTFS and FAT partitions were created in Windows before installing Linux.

    > Starting with a blank *formatted* msdos floppy, as root from the console
    > or xterm session;
    >
    > # mount -t msdos /dev/sda /media/floppy
    >
    > # grub-install --root-directory=/media/floppy /dev/sda
    >
    > # cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /media/floppy/boot/grub/grub.conf
    >
    > # umount /media/floppy
    >

    I couldn't get this to work either. Do you mean /dev/fd0 in the mount
    command? Otherwise it seems you are mounting the first serial drive as the
    floppy.

    Should it be /dev/fd0 in the grub-install command?

    I never used grub before (except that it is now installed on the HD and
    allows me to boot to Windows or Linux). I would like to create a boot
    floppy/CD and remove it from my HD if possible.

    Thanks,
    Peter

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