Thanks Mike :
May be I did not make it clear....
I want to prepare emergency boot floppy/CD so that on booting from this
media, I can get at least root system prompt.
1. I looked at the specified site. I made floppy doing :
cd /lib/grub/i386-pc ( I also saw stage1 and stage2 files in
/boot/grub.. Are these same
in both directories)
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
Now we changed the BIOs to boot from floppy. It took us only upto
GRUB> prompt. Is the above procedure is supposed to take us into GRUB>
prompt only . So obviously I am missing some steps to bring the system
to root prompt. What should I do further?
2. The second thing I tried :
a. edited my /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include following :
title booting from floppy
root fd0
b. copy the kernel image to brand new floppy :
dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
c.Now booted from this floppy
std output says.... Loading.... And the system hangs at
" VFS: cannot open root device "" or 03:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01
Any help is appreciated.
Balbir
