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
Subj: [SLE] Booting with GRUB
Date: Sun Jan 1, 2006 6:55 pm
Size: 2K
To: suse-linux-e
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:
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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.
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Best regards, TRoland
http://www.rotursoft.sk
http://exekutor.rotursoft.sk
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