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

Submitted by:  mad <bob0a>
Submitted on:  Sat 16 Jan 2010 09:51:01 AM UTC  
 
Category: InstallationSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Software Error
Status: InvalidPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: 1.97Reproducibility: 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>
Project 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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