Re: GRUB problem

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>
> > > described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk 
> > > around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly 
> > > tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do a 'setup' 
> > > of 
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > This is excellent advice, and I keep one around, too.
> >
> > Rather than post from memory,
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy.html
>
>
> I remember a while ago the instructions to create a grub floppy
> weren't good, don't know if this is the case here for this link, I
> would have to try it. There was some modification that had to be made
> somewhere. Any way, there was some issue with it ...

Maybe this is more reliable?

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html

I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find
some old notes to remember the exact steps.

Mike
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