Darkelve Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 So I'm trying out this: http://tldp.org/LDP/Pocket-Linux-Guide/html/ And I had a problem with compiling Grub. But, because I wanted to move along in the exercises, I just copied the pre-built image files (lazy, I know tongue.gif ) from the resource site to floppy. However, when my computer boots up and scans the floppy, it looks like nothing is happening and it just continues the booting process from hard disk. And yes, I've got my BIOS settings to boot from floppy and in the right order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 link to prebuilt image so people know what you mean? exact way you made the floppy? did you checksum? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 (edited) link to prebuilt image so people know what you mean? Link: http://pocket-linux.sourceforge.net/ Direct link to file: http://www.happy-monkey.net/pocket/diskett...-bootdisk.image exact way you made the floppy? In Linux: dd if=ch2-bootdisk.image of=/dev/fd0 In Windows: I used Rawwrite No, I did not check the checksum Edited March 22, 2007 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 cannot access http://www.happy-monkey.net and cannot see where you went wrong maybe add conv=notrunc to dd also try a 2d floppy just in case also try a known ok boot floppy (my floppy drive died once) you may need to post on the troubleshooting forum at sourceforge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 I'll try that. What does "conv=notrunc" do actually? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_dd.htm no truncation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 Well, someone on suseforums.net knew what the problem was: Use a newer version of GRUB. 0.95 and 0.96 don't work with GCC 4.0 and binutils 2.5. I have now successfully compiled & setup Grub 0.97 B) Now to compile a kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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