Re: howto make grub bootimage

[Marco Gerards]

Tobias Wollgam <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I want to install grub into a bootimage/floppyimage, but the way it 
> works with grub 0.92 doesn't work with grub 0.94. What can I do?
>
> The old way:
>
> bash# losetup /dev/loop0 floppyimage
> bash# mv /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0-orig
> bash# ln -s /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0
> bash# grub
> grub> root (fd0)
> grub>install /grub/stage1 d (fd0) (fd0)/grub/stage2
> grub>quit
> bash# losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> When I use this way today, grub says the device does not exist. Or is it 
> devfs which makes problems?

I guess it is devfs.  Can't you make a device node instead of a
symlink?

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Marco