Howto make a grub fat boot floppy

[Joel Sherrill]

Till Straumann wrote:
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been trying to make a grub boot floppy
>> with a menu using the latest grub in Fedora 8.
>> It boots into grub but I don't seem to be
>> able to make it find the menu.lst file.
>>
>>     
> Where is your menu.lst ? I believe grub
> would expect it in /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
> i.e., in the same directory where the xxx_stage_yyy
> files live.
>
>   
That's where I keep putting it but ends up
at the grub prompt.

This is the grub menu file that I am using with
the old boot floppy I have.  stage2, grubmenu
and pinewood.exe are in the root directory
on it.

==========================
timeout=5
default=0
title=  Pinewood Derby
# splashimage= (fd0)/splash.xpm.gz
kernel= (fd0)/pinewood.exe
=========================

On the new grub floppy, I am placing that in
(fd0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
> T.
>   
>> I followed these instructions from the grub
>> info pages except I make it a FAT filesystem
>>
>>      # mke2fs /dev/fd0
>>      # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
>>      # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0
>>      # umount /mnt
>>
>> When I boot it, I get to a grub prompt.  I have
>> to be missing something stupid.  Can any tell me
>> what it is?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
>   


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