Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

["Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd " <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Start here:

http://www.google.com/pda?q=linux+grub+boot+floppy&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search&site=search

There are enough variations there that you can choose what you want to do. 

My personal suggestion:

put a cd burner there and create a multi-session bootdisk for best results. 

Floppy disk media flakes out at the most important part of any software project. Ditto with any Flash based USB KEY.

adam 
-----Original Message-----

From:  Roland Turcan <konf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subj:  [SLE] Booting with GRUB
Date:  Sun Jan 1, 2006 6:55 pm
Size:  2K
To:  suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>

Hello suse-linux-e!

I would like to have only one floppy disk for booting all Linuxes I
have got on my computer. I am using Suse 9.2 for developing, but I
have to test at full fart distributions. I don't like to change MBR on
harddisks and FDD solution is better for me. Later I will make USB
flash disk bootable, but booting for floppy is enougth.

I have secondary slave disk which contains:

hdd1: Linux swap
hdd2: Suse 9.2
hdd3: Suse 10.0
hdd4: extended partition
hdd5: Mandriva 2005
hdd6: Slax 5.0.6
hdd7: Fedora Core 4

Menu.lst contains these settings:
---------------------------------
title SUSE LINUX 9.2 Devel (/dev/hdd2)
    kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd2 vga=792 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hdd1 desktop elevator=as showopts
    initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd

title SUSE LINUX 10.0 (/dev/hdd3)
    root (hd1,2)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd3 vga=0x31a selinux=0    resume=/dev/hdd1  splash=silent showopts
    initrd /boot/initrd

title Mandriva 2005
kernel (hd1,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd5 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdd1 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd1,4)/boot/initrd.img

title Slax
kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd6
#initrd (hd1,5)/boot/initrd

title Fedora 4
kernel (hd1,6)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdd7
initrd (hd1,6)/boot/initrd
------------------------------------------------------------------------

First two Suse linuxes are booting without problems. Settings were
copied from /boot/.../menu.lst

Mandriva section was copied from /boot/grub/menu.lst from its
partition, but it cannot start with this setting.

I haven't found any solution how to start Slax or Fedora, these
settings are only test.

I cannot start Fedora, because there wasn't option for storing GRUB to
floppy I have chossen "without boot loader".
I made symlinks to "initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img" and
"vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4" with names "vmlinuz" and "initrd"

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for all replies.

-- 
Best regards, TRoland
http://www.rotursoft.sk
http://exekutor.rotursoft.sk


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