On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On Wed 2002-02-27, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm in an urgent need for a rescue floppy with the following features: > > > > size: 1.44 (tried Tomsrtbt, but it failed to boot, seems like a problem > > with the larger format) > > > > Kernel supports ext2 > > > > includes either /dev/hda2 or mknod > > Just yesterday I played with grub and found it very impressive. > I don't know if it is of help to you, but creating a grub floppy is a snap: > just need two commands (IIRC, these:) > > dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 > dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 seek=1 > (I can send you those files if you need) > > Then, you can boot from floppy, and boot into *anything* you like. > the floppy drops you into a simple commandline, where you can tell it: > - from which disk toboot (hard drive 1, hard drive 1, which partition, etc) > - in case of linux: which kernel to boot. (It can read ext2, reiserfs, etc!!!)
In case you don't know those in advance, can you: * list contents of directories? (ls /boot) * display the contents of files? (cat /etc/lilo.conf) * Will it follow symlinks? (/vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-<something> ) > > I was very impressed. > let me know if you need the files! Happen to have it in a format that is writable by rawrite? I figure that this requires just those two blocks in one file. But does the whole stage2 fit in one block? -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
