On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:38:46PM -0500, Dan Weber wrote: > A few days ago I realized that you could not make a boot disk with a debian > kernel because of the large initrd. Well I have a solution to that if you use > grub. Basically it makes grub floppy with a menu that will be installed on to a > disk. Using update-grub or something to generate the main menu.lst that is all > that is necessary, note that the location of stage1 and stage2 are often in > /boot/grub. That is what I used in the script, however if they decide to boot > only from this disk, the stages will have to be copied from > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2 and /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1. I will soon > incorporate those changes into my script. However this provides a much more > general solution to the issue. It obviously does not carry the kernel, but it > will read it from hard drive instead. It doesn't really help if you have hard > drive failure. That is also a known concept of grub. > It might in any case be smarter to just include the stages on the cd. Lets elimate the issue of location. This way we have a standard location. Dan
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