You can get the grub manual at www.gnu.org.  Use that to setup your floppy
and mba.  I'm not sure why you want to do what you are doing, but as I said
get the manual.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Felipe Leon
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Grub question
> 
> Group,
> 
> I decided to eliminate grub from the mba  of the hardrive where windows
> resides, so I could just boot to linux using a floppy. Obviously I
> wanted grub on a floppy so what I did was (read it somewhere) to dd the
> files stage1 and stage2 from /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/ to the floppy
> like this:
> 
> # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> 
> When the computer boots I get  grub> so I can give parameters such as
> root (hd1,0), kernel ... initrd... and then boot to the current kernel.
> I don't want to type these things everytime I want to boot linux. Can I
> make a script or something so I don't need to do it everytime? do I need
> to install "more completely" grub on the floppy? What can I do?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help!
> 
> Felipe.
> 
> 
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