problem installing grub in a hard disk image

[Nick Brown]

Hi,

I'm trying to install grub into a hard disk image, however I'm encountering a 
problem.
Below are the steps I've taken to create the disk image, partition it, create 
the file system, and copy the grub images into it. At the end are the grub 
commands I use to attempt to install grub into the image.
There should be enough info to reproduce what I did.
All of this was done on Mandrake 10.1 (important detail; 2.6.8.1-20mdk kernel, 
grub 0.95)
The error message I get from grub is shown below the last command I use.

Can anyone offer any help or suggestion?

Thanks,
Nick



#
# Building a raw disk image
#

# bytes per sector
bytes=512
# sectors per track
sectors=63
# heads per track
heads=16
# bytes per cylinder is bytes*sectors*head
bpc=$(( bytes*sectors*heads ))
# number of cylinders
# For a image of $size MB, cylinders = (($size*1024*1024)/$bpc)
size=200
cylinders=$(( ($size*1024*1024) / $bpc ))

# Path to disk image
image="/home/nicbrown/Software/disk.img"
# Path to location to mount image
mount="/home/nicbrown/Software/dev-partition"

# Create raw disk image
dd if=/dev/zero of=$image bs=$bpc count=$cylinders

# Attach image as raw device and partition it
losetup /dev/loop0 $image
fdisk -u -C$cylinders -S$sectors -H$heads /dev/loop0
# Create a ext2 partition
# With commands like these;
# o n p 1 <return> <return> a 1 p w
# Note the start sector and block count of partition
# start=63
# count=204592
losetup -d /dev/loop0

# Mount a specfic parition
offset=$(( start*bytes ))
losetup -o$offset /dev/loop0 $image

# Format the partition
mke2fs -o hurd -b1024 /dev/loop0 $count

# Mount the partition
mount -tauto /dev/loop0 $mount

# Unmount the partition
umount /dev/loop0
losetup -d /dev/loop0

#
# Installing GRUB into the raw disk image
#

# Easy mounting
mount -tauto -oloop=/dev/loop0,offset=$offset $image $mount

# Copy across needed grub images
cd $mount
mkdir -p boot/grub
cd /boot/grub
cp stage1 stage2 e2fs_stage1_5 $mount/boot/grub
cd
sync
umount -d $mount

# Install grub
losetup /dev/loop0 $image
grub
# Commands like this;
# device (hd0) /dev/loop0
# geometry (hd0) $cylinders $heads $sectors
# root (hd0,0)
# setup (hd0)

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)"...  22 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+22 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed

Error 22: No such partition