Re: Possible to install grub rom menu.lst ?

[J.Bakshi]

adrian15 wrote:
> J.Bakshi escribió:
>> Andrian, Yesterday I checked just
>>
>> root (fd0)
>> setup (fd0)
>>
>> with in grub shell and found that GRUB install stage1 in the floppy
>> which in turn call the stage2 from the hard disk.
>> So this is a way to place stage1 in floppy and this floppy is a computer
>> specific as stage2 is in the hard disk.
>
> You have to improve your English :).
>
> This two commands should make a floppy that it is independent of the
> hard disk contents. Are you sure that it calls the stage2 from the
> hard disk?

Here is the details which I did yesterday.

1> I have make a file system on the formatted  floppy with "mke2fs /dev/fd0"

2> Then I disable the IDE support and boot the machine from floppy. The
PC booted from the floppy and displayed "GRUB" and nothing happened.

3> I enable the IDE support from the BIOS and booted the PC from floppy.
This time I got the menu from grub

4> I repeated the #2 and #3 a no. of times and got the same result.

Conclusion : If the floppy really had menu.lst it should show the menu
when IDE support was disable. As I know that stage2 actually call menu.lst

>
> Are you asking...
>
>     1) A floppy that it is dependent from the hard disk?
>
> or are you asking...
>     2) A floppy that it is NOT dependent from the hard disk?
>
>
> adrian15
>
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