Again, GRUB boot floppy

[Alex Mauer]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Rashkae wrote:
>> Maybe we're asking the wrong question... Surely there must be a
>> program/script out there somewhere that creates an emergency boot floppy
>> for your system?
>>
>> (Sorry, no, I don't know of any off the top of my head... I don't use
>> floppies at all anymore unless I'm installing Windoze)
> 
> Ok, I guess I'm going to have to do it again.   I once wrote (about 5 yrs ago) 
> a procedure for making a grub boot floppy.   I haven't used one in years.
> 
> But it's not that tough and I will do it and report back.
> 

it's extremely easy:

'cat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2 > /dev/fd0'

or 'cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc; cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0'

or 'cat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2 | sudo
tee /dev/fd0'

You get the idea.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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