OK, I have a strange one for you - grub

[jdow]

Nevermind - I managed to pick a floppy with a bad spot in a bad spot
to make the grub disk.
{o.o}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jdow" <jdow at earthlink.net>


>I need some help with an obscure problem that I think grub can solve.
> 
> I have a motherboard that has replaced an old ECS board that blew its
> caps. It's an FIC motherboard which refuses to boot off the main IDE
> hard disk when the Promise raid system that the machine should have is
> installed. We desperately need to get data off the Promise card.
> 
> So the kicker is I must chain load to the /dev/hd0 boot from a floppy
> to overcome the BIOS's attempt to boot from the RAID array. (It was
> present solely to store audio files.)
> 
> I can create a floppy with stage1 and stage2 per the documentation.
> But I am creating it NOT on the system that I must boot. So what I
> need to know is what next steps are necessary to create a floppy
> which will chain on over to boot off the MBR of /dev/hd0. There
> seems to be missing steps in the grub documentation in this regard.
> 
> Is this even possible?
> 
> And if not, is it possible with lilo instead?
> 
> {^_^}   Joanne