Again, GRUB boot floppy

[alex]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007, alex wrote:
>   
>> I recently posted "GRUB boot floppy" and received some suggestions but
>> the only one that comes closest to actually creating a working grub boot
>> floppy is:
>>
>>
>>       # cd  /usr/lib/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
>>
>> I couldn't get  it to work in the original form.  In the first place,
>> there wasn't a track directory track like     /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
>>
>> First, I formatted the floppy        # fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
>> and then the following:
>>
>>         #cd /boot/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
>>         196+1 records in
>>         196+1 records out
>>         100522 bytes (101kB)  copied  10.0162-seconds, 10.0kB/s
>>
>> When I start the computer, the floppy runs and I get a notice
>>           GRUB loading stage 2
>> followed by----"Minimum BASH-like editing supported"
>>
>> The TAB key displays a menu of  commands;
>>
>> This is as far as I can go-----I have no idea what to do from here
>>
>> To avoid the need to do BASH editing, I suspect that there should be
>> something added to:.
>>       #cd /boot/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
>>         196+1 records in
>>         196+1 records out
>>         100522 bytes (101kB)  copied  10.0162-seconds, 10.0kB/s
>>
>> I hope I presented my problem clearly.
>>
>> alex
>>     
>
> In looking at what you did, my first thought was "why didn't you use  grub 
> setup?"
>   
I just came back from a google search for  'grub setup' and it appears 
to be something that doesn't apply to floppies.
Could you elaborate a bit more?
> What you did was to write stage2 onto the floppy, but when grub sets up a boot 
> sequence, it also tells the boot parts *where* to find the menu.lst.    Since 
> you didn't do that,  grub booted and then said  "Huh?"   which is what it 
> does when it doesn't have a pointer to the menu.lst location.
>   
I have no idea of how to accomplish this.

Is this be something that  can be incorporated  in  ?

 #cd /boot/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
        196+1 records in
        196+1 records out
        100522 bytes (101kB)  copied  10.0162-seconds, 10.0kB/s

alex