Thanks Doug,
I tried to follow your directions to the letter, except for mc, as I don't
have enough familiarity with it. Here's what I tried:
wget
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz
gunzip boot.img.gz
mount -oloop boot.img /mnt
fdisk /dev/sda # create one 300MB bootable FAT16 partition
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
mkdir /target
mount /dev/sda1 /target
(cd /mnt && tar -cpf - .)|(cd /target && tar xpf -)
cp debian-40r0-amd64-businesscard.iso /target
umount /target /mnt
install-mbr /dev/sda
dd if=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=76800 of=boot.img.300MB_doug
file boot.img.300MB_doug # x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x6, active,
starthead 1, startsector 63, 594342 sectors
When I reboot with that image on sda, it blinks the cursor three or four
times, then goes to GRUB, which found on the next boot device. If instead
I just do "zcat boot.img.gz >/dev/sda" it works as advertised.
In this case the syslinux.cfg is unchanged from the Debian installer version.
Here's the ls -al:
# ls -al /target/
total 50284
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 1970-01-01 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2007-04-21 22:45 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67 2007-03-10 00:37 boot.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34689024 2007-04-21 23:13
debian-40r0-amd64-businesscard.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62 2007-03-10 00:37 disk.lbl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 568 2007-03-10 00:37 f10.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 875 2007-03-10 00:37 f1.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 666 2007-03-10 00:37 f2.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 780 2007-03-10 00:37 f3.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 485 2007-03-10 00:37 f4.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 806 2007-03-10 00:37 f5.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1139 2007-03-10 00:37 f6.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 916 2007-03-10 00:37 f7.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1102 2007-03-10 00:37 f8.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 766 2007-03-10 00:37 f9.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10907891 2007-03-10 00:37 initrdg.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4207113 2007-03-10 00:37 initrd.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9932 2007-03-10 00:37 ldlinux.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1512476 2007-03-10 00:37 linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9519 2007-03-10 00:37 splash.rle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1023 2007-03-10 00:37 syslinux.cfg
#
Thanks,
Nick
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