Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> > On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there an option I can make a "boot CD" like the boot floppy option
> > > > present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of installation?
> > > You can use the netinst CD as a rescue disk. Just boot with option
> > > 'rescue' or 'rescuegui'.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrei
> > Well I want a substitute for the "boot floppy" that used to boot the
> > system in the days gone by. Even a 1.44 MB floppy was able to boot a
> > normal debian system .... I think I did it once on a potato 2.2 system
> > and it would happily boot off the floppy in to the normal debian and
> > even X worked well.
> >
> > Is that not possible with the netinstall? Where's that boot floppy option 
> > now?
>
> you can install grub on a floppy and use that.
>
>
> A

http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_create_a_Grub_disc_to_boot_a_Debian_GNU/Linux_system

2 works (creating a floppy), 3 does not work (creating a CD), at least 
NFM. I can create it, but booting gets an error and I have to use the 
commandline interface and enter all stanzas by hand. let us know if you 
get that to work and how.

Hugo