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Re: Briefly Making a Botable Floppy with GRUB



David R. Litwin wrote:
> cp ...... stage1 /floppy/grub/
> cp ...... stage2 /floppy/grub/

> (adjust vmlinuz and initrd... and where your /boot/vmlinuz... is,
> here first hd second oartition)

> but I do not know what the cp .... stages one and two means,

  dpkg -L grub | grep stage

Those files used to be located in /boot but are now in /lib/grub/*/*
now.  The stage files are various different stages of the bootstrap
loader.

> and the text in parenthesis.

Different people tend to have different ideas about how to organize
their boot files.  Even Debian puts them in different places depending
upon your bootloader.  On Debian /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) and
/boot/initrd-$(uname -r) are the current images.  But lilo would set
symlinks from /vmlinuz and so forth.

Probably what those instructions want is to copy your kernel and
initrd from where they are now (/boot) to the floppy at
/floppy/grub/.  Then adjust the menu.lst to point to those files.

Bob

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