When I tird to do these by Ubuntu 'My computer' or xfe I failed (and without correct error messages!). Only the root terminal can do these.
This link has been bookmarked by 6 people . It was first bookmarked on 29 May 2009, by H.C. Chen.
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olegley"Making a GRUB boot floppy"
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Shawn Skriver<ubottu> Linaxys: Boot options: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions - To add/remove startup services, you can use the package 'bum', or update-rc.d - To add your own startup scripts, use /etc/rc.local - See also !grub and !dualboot - Making a bo
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29 May 09
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Add Sticky Notemount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy mkdir /media/floppy/boot mkdir /media/floppy/boot/grub cd /boot/grub cp stage1 stage2 /media/floppy/boot/grub
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Add Sticky Notethen start GRUB in interactive mode by typing grub
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In root terminal, key in command 'grub'.
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Add Sticky Notedevice (fd0) /dev/fd0 root (fd0) setup (fd0) quit
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I have problem here. 'root (fd0' replies an error says 'unknown partition table signature'. That means the program doesn't know this is a floppy. Try to get help from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-401455.html
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Retry key in the command 'root (fd0)' again, ... the problem gone !!
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after the 'quit' , I mount the floppy back and check ... no new file were added. I only seen /boot/grub/stage1 stage2
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This floppy is really bootable !! It boot up to GRUB command prompt very quickly. I didn't do the above step that copys /boot/grub/menu.lst and device.map. I did it then and the floppy really boot to my Ubuntu 904 from HDD after all although it boots from floppy at first.
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so, this diskette is suitable for http://a.nnotate.com/docs/2009-05-27/sBK2v0yg/index.html#note34 study
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Add Sticky Notedd if=/dev/hda of=/media/floppy/boot.mbr bs=512 count=1
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in my case, there's no /dev/hda thus error occured that said so. According to /boot/grub/device.map I got the correct device path /dev/sba and it really works. This command line demos how to save HDD MBR to a file by standard dd command.
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