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Sorry for this nooby question, I am new to all this but please be patient .

I was reading this.( http://www.osdever.net/tutorials/brans- ... t-tutorial ) and at the end they link it to a kernel.bin, but they don't explain how they convert that to a nice floppy.img with GRUB. I've seen some ways but they all involve a real floppy drive which I don't have anymore . Is there a way to make that img without putting it directly on a real floppy.

I'm working on Linux(Ubuntu)
I'm using Qemu to emulate.

Ty.

Since you are using ubuntu, you can use mtools to manipulate the disk image.

You will want to create a 1440KiB image, format it as FAT and install GrUB on it.
Then you can either loopback mount the image, or use mtools to copy your kernel to it

Replace kernel.bin and compile floppy.asc by fasm.

GrubOnFloppy.zip
GrubOnFloppy-198.zip

Thanks but 1 last question what is the command form fasm with that floppy.asc file?And could I use nasm or should i install fasm?

Text of floppy.asc is fasm specific. Use fasm.

oke sorry but how do I install fasm in ubuntu???

Unpack executable file from distribution package. I think that's enough

NVM after a long time of google'ing I found a deb file to install ty for everything

If someone is interested: here's the link to the "fasm.deb" file:
http://code.google.com/p/fasmdeb/downlo ... b&can=2&q=