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HalfMadDad
January 5th, 2010, 02:27 PM
Hi Everyone

unfortunately I have to use Win NT 4.0 everyday and in fact I am trying to create a system where I have many versions of NT on one disk. My plan is to store them in Linux and create a shell script to over write the first primarly partition which is ntfs. I am trying to install Xubuntu Koala on a logical partition and NT at the start of the disk. Grub is not loading NT well. I want to just use the NT booter and launch Linux from a floppy.

During the install there is an option to write grub to /dev/fd0 but it won't work for me. I tried both fat and ext2 formatted disks and I made sure they were present during the initial boot for auto mounting. I have verified that the floppy drive actually works.

Please help me install grub to my floppy.

Thanks in advance-Patrick

dato1989
January 5th, 2010, 03:02 PM
Hi Everyone

unfortunately I have to use Win NT 4.0 everyday and in fact I am trying to create a system where I have many versions of NT on one disk. My plan is to store them in Linux and create a shell script to over write the first primarly partition which is ntfs. I am trying to install Xubuntu Koala on a logical partition and NT at the start of the disk. Grub is not loading NT well. I want to just use the NT booter and launch Linux from a floppy.

During the install there is an option to write grub to /dev/fd0 but it won't work for me. I tried both fat and ext2 formatted disks and I made sure they were present during the initial boot for auto mounting. I have verified that the floppy drive actually works.

Please help me install grub to my floppy.

Thanks in advance-Patrick
you can try this links
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/BootFloppy
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/WithFloppies
or visit https://help.ubuntu.com/community and type what are you interested about

david

phillw
January 5th, 2010, 03:04 PM
Hi and welcome the forums,

This excellent thread covers both grub legacy (pre 9.10) and grub2 and floppies.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305475

Should get you sorted :-)

Regards,

Phill.