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Making a Grub floppy!
This is very useful on multiboot systems.
Do it always, the 10 minutes are well spent!
For each Linux system you install.
Put a floppy in the drive and perform, as root, the following steps
on the shell. If on Ubuntu, use sudo commands. Assume the
system to save is in /fedora-system with a /fedora-system/boot
directory.
These directories are simply / and /boot if you are creating the floppy
for the same system you are using at that moment.
- mke2fs /dev/fd0
- cd /media
- mkdir floppy
If this not already exists.
- mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
- cd floppy
- mkdir boot
- cd boot
- cp /fedora-system/usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/* .
Depends on the actual configuration!
To figure it out, try slocate stage2.
- cp /fedora-system/sbin/grub* .
Depends on the actual configuration.
Sometimes it is /Other-system/lib/grub*!
- cp /fedoraboot/grub/menu.lst .
- cd
- umount /dev/fd0
- grub
Now you are in grub.
- root (fd0)
- install (fd0)/boot/stage1 (fd0) (fd0)/boot/stage2 p (fd0)/boot/menu.lst
On one row. You may like to widen the terminal window.
- quit