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Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?
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Stephen Liu |
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Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how? |
Date: |
Fri, 5 May 2006 22:23:32 +0800 (CST) |
Hi adrian15,
Tks for your detail advice.
FC5_64
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> The option is: Special Boot -- Boot your OS (linux or other one)
> again --
For a multi-boot PC, including WinXP and other distro can I use boot
floppy? If YES how to edit the floppy to boot WinXP and other distro.
Because of WinXP I suppose the floppy should run FAT32/vfat.
> > following is the content of;
> > # ls -al /boot/grub/
> > total 207
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 21 15:53 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Apr 21 15:53 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Apr 20 15:15 device.map
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7456 Apr 20 15:15 e2fs_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7328 Apr 20 15:15 fat_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6592 Apr 20 15:15 ffs_stage1_5
> > -rw------- 1 root root 746 Apr 28 01:02 grub.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6592 Apr 20 15:15 iso9660_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8032 Apr 20 15:15 jfs_stage1_5
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 20 15:15 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6752 Apr 20 15:15 minix_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9056 Apr 20 15:15 reiserfs_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7028 Mar 1 12:41 splash.xpm.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Apr 20 15:15 stage1
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102332 Apr 20 15:15 stage2
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Apr 20 15:15 ufs2_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6144 Apr 20 15:15 vstafs_stage1_5
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8768 Apr 20 15:15 xfs_stage1_5
> > * * * END * * *
> >
> > Whether copy all files to /boot/grub/ on the floppy?
> If the floppy is only for grub and you do not want more to do with
> it...
What other things can be done on the boot floopy?
Others noted with tks.
B.R.
SL
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- Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?, Stephen Liu, 2006/05/05
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- Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?, adrian15, 2006/05/09
- Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?, Stephen Liu, 2006/05/10
- Re: completely stand-alone grub (legacy or new) boot floppy - how?, adrian15, 2006/05/10
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