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Re: GRUB floppy scripts



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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