On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Martin McCormick <mar...@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote: > > I have a system that constantly reverts back to the > wrong boot order and I need to monkey-wrench it to boot off > CDROM so as to upgrade it to wheezy. > > As a computer user who happens to be blind, this is a > major pain. Get the monitor. Find somebody to watch it and ask > them to go in to CMOS setup and reorder the boot sequence and > then save. If you only have to do that once per computer, it is > tolerable but eventually, this otherwise functional computer > won't boot off the CD and we have to do it all over again. > > I want to declare a truce and put a floppy in that will > call the CD. I think this can be done but all the documentation > I find is either very narrowly targetted or doesn't explain > the why of grub-install well enough to figure out what to do. > > That is more or less where I am at this point. > > My questions are: > > Should this work? > Where are some linear English sentences that de mystify what we > can get grub-install to do?
grub-install has "--no-floppy" and "--allow-floppy" options so installing grub to a floppy should be possible. AFAIR, grub-install on BIOS hardware: . populates DIR/grub from "/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc" . invokes grub-mkimage to create core.img . invokes grub-setup (or grub-bios-setup on wheezy) to install boot.img and core.img in the MBR and the MBR gap respectively (or, in the case of a GPT-labelled disk, the MBR and the bootbios partition). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sy2ao0roxczpoh+y5c33ftkzjzj2zq1iwtptcnadpn...@mail.gmail.com
