Re: automate creation of hard disk image

[David N. Welton]

David N. Welton wrote:

[ please CC replies to me - thanks! ]

> Hi, I have a disk image I am creating in a file, hd.img.
>
> I've been attempting, so far without success, to automate the 
> installation of grub to this disk.  It's not a complex setup - just a 
> HD image for use with bochs (and eventually on the target system), but 
> things don't seem to be working.  Having looked around with google, I 
> found commands such as device (hd0) /home/davidw/hd.img that were 
> supposed to do the mapping, but it gets the geometry all wrong.  I 
> tried correcting it with geometry, but that didn't help either.
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome. 

Hrm... what I am trying to do is very similar to mkbimage, but that's 
not working either:

grub> geometry (hd0) 93 16 63
drive 0x80: C/H/S = 93/16/63, The number of sectors = 93744, /root/hd.image
  Partition num: 0,  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  16 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p 
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed

Error 22: No such partition
grub> geometry  -w  (hd0) 93 16 63

Error 11: Unrecognized device string

Thanks again,