Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a thing of the past? Or are there circumstances when making a boot floppy is still advisable? If so, since mkboot appears to require lilo, what's the alternative for us grub guys?With 2.6 kernels being so big, plus needing an initrd, I haven't seen an acutal boot floppy since 2.4 days with Woody.
During my mondo backups he (she?) tries valiantly to create bootdisks: WARNING - failed to create 1.44MB boot/root floppies WARNING - failed to create 2.88MB floppy disk image. ... 8192 KB boot disks were created OK Although I have no clue how to get a 8192KB floppy. Or "flop"? Hugo
To just get to a Grub prompt, you can create a grub disk, either following the directions in the docs or by installing grub-disk and then dd'ing the image file it gives you.