GRUB Problem

Question about which tools to use, bugs, the best way to implement a function, etc should go here. Don't forget to see if your question is answered in the wiki first! When in doubt post here.
Post Reply
Mastermind

GRUB Problem

Post by Mastermind »

I am having some trouble installing GRUB on my floppy disk. First, concatenate stage1 and stage 2 into grub.raw. Then I used RAWRITE to put it on my floppy disc. I copied stage1 and stage2 onto a second disk (A:\boot\grub). I booted up grub from the first disk. I ejected the disk and replaced it with the second. I typed in the following command:

setup (fd0)

It didn't work: I got an error:

Disk read error

What should I do? Please help!!!
Therx

Re:GRUB Problem

Post by Therx »

Are you sure that's what you did it sounds right? An easy way would be to download a grub image from somewhere. There's one lurking somewhere at osdev.neopages.net and there must be others elsewhere. You need to edit the menu.lst file to your requirements. You may have seen it but there is a GRUB tutorial at osdev.neopages.net as well
K.J.

Re:GRUB Problem

Post by K.J. »

You can get a pre-made GRUB floppy image(FAT12 formatted) here:
http://osdev.neopages.net/downloads/dis ... bimage.zip

The error you are receiving sounds like the version of GRUB you are using wasn't compiled with the support for the FS the floppy is formatted in.

K.J.
Post Reply