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bug #28630: Can't install GRUB 2 on a floppy disk

Submitter:  mad <bob0a>
Submitted:  Sat 16 Jan 2010 09:51:01 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Installation Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Software Error
Status:  Invalid Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  1.97
Release:  Reproducibility:  None
Planned Release:  None

Sat 16 Jan 2010 10:50:32 AM UTC, comment #1: 

That's the manual for GRUB Legacy not GRUB 2.
But it should still work if device.map lists fd0.
Else just use grub-mkfloppy (and in newer versions grub-mkrescue) to generate a floppy image which can be directly copied with e.g. dd to /dev/fd0

Felix Zielcke <fzielcke>
Group Member
Sat 16 Jan 2010 09:51:01 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

I'm trying to install GRUB 2 on a floppy disk, like explained here : http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html
 
     # mke2fs /dev/fd0
     # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
     # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0
     # umount /mnt


And I get this error :
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/fd0.  Check your device.map.

Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.


If I specify the module with --modules=ext2 I got this error :
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/fd0.  Check your device.map.


Version GRUB 1.97 beta 4

mad <bob0a>

 

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