You can get the grub manual at www.gnu.org. Use that to setup your floppy and mba. I'm not sure why you want to do what you are doing, but as I said get the manual. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Felipe Leon > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:23 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Grub question > > Group, > > I decided to eliminate grub from the mba of the hardrive where windows > resides, so I could just boot to linux using a floppy. Obviously I > wanted grub on a floppy so what I did was (read it somewhere) to dd the > files stage1 and stage2 from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/ to the floppy > like this: > > # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 > > When the computer boots I get grub> so I can give parameters such as > root (hd1,0), kernel ... initrd... and then boot to the current kernel. > I don't want to type these things everytime I want to boot linux. Can I > make a script or something so I don't need to do it everytime? do I need > to install "more completely" grub on the floppy? What can I do? > > Thanks a lot for any help! > > Felipe. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
