Joachim Backes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:11 +0200, mustafa wrote:
I just finished installing fedora 3, I didn't install a boot loader, how can I make a boot floppy disk? I saw this note from fedora 4 installation dcumentation: "Your computer must have GRUB or another boot loader installed in order to start, unless you create a separate startup disk to boot from." But the installation finished and it didn't ask me to make one! also, I can burn a boot image on a cd, could that help
/sbin/mkbootdisk command.
Hasn't worked for a looooonng time.
Mustafa:
The message is perhaps a little ambiguous. What it means is that you must install something to boot FC4 somewhere, it does not boot itself. If your computer boots right now, then a boot did get installed. Most likely GRUB is what is installed on your hard drive.
I consider it good practice to make a boot floppy, and keep one around. It's also good practice to keep a rescue bootable CD around.
Anyway, try this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Creating-a-GRUB-boot-flopp...
On my FC2 machine, I get this results:
$ locate stage1 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/vstafs_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/xfs_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/e2fs_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/minix_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/ffs_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/fat_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/reiserfs_stage1_5 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/stage1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/jfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/ffs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/vstafs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5 /boot/grub/stage1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5
[emphasis added]
$ locate stage2 /usr/share/grub/i386-redhat/stage2 /boot/grub/stage2
Either of these two will work for the stage1 and stage2 mentioned on the web page. You may need a stage1_5, depending on what file system you are using.
Mike