On a UNIX-like operating system, that is done with the following commands:
# cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 153+1 records in 153+1 records out #
The device file name may be different. Consult the manual for your OS.
Jerry, I am familiar with this info page. However it does not work, I get a "stage(x) geometry" error (where (x) may be 1 or 2, I'd have to reboot again to check) and have to reboot without the floppy. I'm convinced that I should be altering the grub.conf in some way but I'm not sure how! Not sure whether this is relevant, but my (yast created) /boot/grub/device.map contains (hd0) /dev/hda (fd0) /dev/sda Should (fd0) be /dev/sda? On my system sda4 is my parallel zip 250 drive. PS: Thanks Ken for pointing out what seems obvious now regarding runlevel. Maybe seeing the boot params displayed in the boot menu, unlike lilo, confused me.