Re: grub floppy

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello !

I think your problem is very simple.
The floppy device is `(fd0)' not `(fd0,)' !!

With friendly regards
        Christoph


Jason Thomas wrote:
> 
> whats the go with creating a grub boot floppy.
> 
> grub-install yeilds.
> 
> address@hidden:~ $ grub-install /dev/floppy/0
> expr: non-numeric argument
> 
>     GRUB  version 0.90  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>    completions of a device/filename. ]
> 
> grub>                                                                         
>  root (hd0,1)
>  Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
> 
> grub>                                                                         
>  setup  --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (fd0,)
> 
> Error 12: Invalid device requested
> 
> grub>                                                                         
>  quit
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