On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:24:29PM +0200, UrJiZ wrote: > I've been working on a project of mine, putting GRUB2 to An award BIOS > using ROMOS (http://rayer.ic.cz/romos/romose.htm). > I've succesfully compiled GRUB 2 and generated my first rom disk > image. I used http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86 ,"Creating the > Floppy" as my guide. I followed it mostly but skipping the copying of > all the mods to the image (no space in 62K for 'em), but adding all > the necesary modules to the core.img. > The succesfull core.img was created using the following command: > ./grub-mkimage -d . -v -o core.img biosdisk configfile terminal normal > _chain fat linux ext2 ls font halt pc > > The disk had 5.5K of free space on this version, and I as I saw ata.c, > i thought that it could also support CD's by adding ata and iso9660. > So, a new core.img was created like so: > ./grub-mkimage -d . -v -o core.img biosdisk configfile terminal normal > _chain fat linux ext2 ls font halt pc ata iso9660 > > This core.img was a little bit larger, left 1K of free on the disk > (good for grub.cfg when all else is done). > This time grub-setup failed with the error on the subject line. I > googled for it and found nothing, so i thought i could ask here about > it. > > So, why is this a problem, and why it worked for the first time but > not with 2 more modules?...
For building a floppy use grub-mkrescue instead. Btw, could someone update the wiki ? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
