On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 02:50:12AM -0500, Rob Benton wrote: > I just did a sarge install and partitioned my drive like this: > > /deb/hdb1 /boot > /dev/hdb2 / > /dev/hdb5 /usr/local > /dev/hdb6 /u01 > /dev/hdb7 swap > > > Problem is I forgot to set /dev/hdb1 to bootable when I was > partitioning. So I re-ran the debian-installer and modified the > /dev/hdb1 partition to be bootable. But when I try making a floppy: > > dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
Assuming stage1 and stage2 are in /boot/grub: cd /boot/grub dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 or try: cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 > /dev/fd0 > > On reboot I get this > > "GRUB " > > Something's wrong I just don't know what. What could I have > forgotten? -- Jerome
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