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GRUB Floppy Image Problem

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:09 pm
by Puffy
Hello,

I've asked a few times around these parts about making a floppy image which uses grub to boot my kernel using a loopback device. I've always got responses but I've still never been able to achieve what I want. I want to create a bootable floppy image, using grub, which displays the grub OS chooser menu (like the floppy image which is avaliable at the end of Bran's Kernel Development Tutorial).

I've tried following the wiki tutorial and I've tried following this http://sig9.com/bochs-grub tutorial. I can't get either to work. I'm really stuck. Can someone take me through (in baby steps) how to get this working?

Thank you,

Puff

Re: GRUB Floppy Image Problem

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:08 pm
by Combuster
1) write a floppy image with grub preinstalled to the loopback device
2) mount the loopback device as a FAT filesystem
3) copy the kernel
4) unmount