Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 19:15:52 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: "lewiz" <purple@lewiz.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GRUB. Message-ID: <20020527191552.0bea6578.jud@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <1022534149.359.4.camel@turtle.lewiz.org> References: <1022534149.359.4.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 27 May 2002 22:15:49 +0100 "lewiz" <purple@lewiz.info> wrote: > Hey, > > A few days ago there was a thread about GRUB. This is mostly > unrelated but I saw there was a fair bit of interest so I am hoping > I might be able to get some help. > > From the GRUB manual page > (http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_mono/grub.html#Creating%2 > 0a%20GRUB%20boot%20floppy) I am told to run dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 > bs=512 count=1 && dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 in order to > build myself a GRUB boot floppy. > I have attempted this to find: > > root@turtle /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd # dd if=stage1 > of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes transferred in 1.303267 secs (393 bytes/sec) > root@turtle /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd # dd if=stage2 > of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument > 206+1 records in > 206+0 records out > 105472 bytes transferred in 4.463077 secs (23632 bytes/sec) > root@turtle /usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd # > > Basically I get dd: /dev/fd0: Invalid argument when I attempt to > run the > second command. Why should this be the case? I have attempted to > boot with this disk just the same but, as I expected, it did not > work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -lewiz. When I was using GRUB (still my preferred bootloader, but sadly it doesn't yet grok booting from RAID-0 arrays), I got the same errors you did when making the boot floppy, but I was able to boot from mine. There are a couple of other installation methods described in the documentation, IIRC, so you might try one of those. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020527191552.0bea6578.jud>