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grub-floppy for etchI am making a grub-floppy to boot etch, following this article in the Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622 and the grub manual. The floppy has the boot > grub directories and the stage1 and stage2 files. It now boots into the grub command line and successfully boots ms windows, but not etch. Etch occupies three partitions on the second IDE hard drive (the slave drive) Partition 1 is boot, Partition 2 is root, and Partition 3 is swap. Etch currently boots using grub installed on the primary hard drive's boot sector. The grub-floppy is a project I doing as a possible blog subject. Here are the grub commands I am using unsuccessfully to boot etch from the floppy, The above commands produce a kernel panic. I have tried many different combos over several days without success. best regards to all Bookmark/Search this post with: 
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Re: grub-floppy for etch
A couple of years ago, I struggled getting a grub floppy to work while trying to follow the grub documentation at the gnu website. The instructions there did not work for me, I think because Debian's setup was different than what was assumed. Here are the only notes I have regarding the commands finally worked.
# mount /floppy
# cp /boot/grub/stage1 /floppy/boot/grub/stage1
# cp /boot/grub/stage2 /floppy/boot/grub/stage2
# cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /floppy/boot/grub/menu.lst
grub> root (fd0)
grub> setup (fd0)