getting grub to work

[Weedman]

i installed the "grub 0.97" package from linuxpackages.org.

how do i setup grub without the use of a floppy?

any help appreciated

weed

[retired1af]

Excellent tutorial here.

[gajon]

If you are trying to do a grub-install and you don't have a floppy drive (like in my case) then grub will appear to freeze (or maybe it just takes too much time, but I decided not to wait to see).

Type man grub-install and read the command line options, there is one that indicates grub to not search for the floppy drive. If I remember correctly you also need to delete a file if you previously tried the grub-install command, but I can't remember which file, I just know that it was in the /boot/grub/ directory. You could delete the grub directory and reinstall the package and then issue the grub-install command again with the command line switch to avoid searching the floppy drive.

I apologize for not being able to give you more details but I don't have access to that computer right now and won't have in the next three days.

[drakebasher]

This link may be helpful, too, not to mention running the command 'info grub'.