Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Mick Higgins <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 06 Feb 2005 18:52, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
> 
> -If you want to have a bootable grub floppy, in the linux shell
> try:
> 
> mke2fs /dev/fd0
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/floppy /dev/fd0
> umount /dev/fd0
> 
> 
> Bahram Alinezhad,
> Registered linux user #375283 (counter.li.org)
> Rudehen, Tehran, Iran.
> 

Thanks Bahram, that's what I was looking for.

I ran the above and then changed my grub.conf from

install  --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst

to

install  --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (fd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst

and it worked from floppy.

All I had to do then was fdisk /MBR in MSDOS  to reset the HD.