Floppy booting Fedora Core

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Thu Mar 24 02:06:53 UTC 2005


On 03/23/2005 04:39:59 PM, Jogger wrote:
> The earlier versions of the Fedora Core offered a choice of creating  
> a
> boot
> floppy during the installation process. This was a perfect choice  
> when
> a
> dual boot system was necessary and starting the Linux booting process
> from a
> floppy was an acceptable alternative.


Don't install grub to the mbr - and use a floppy boot loader called GAG  
(in spanish it stands for graphical boot loader)

You tell it what partition grub was installed to, and it does the rest.
Let windows have the mbr, and use gag on a floppy to boot linux.

-- 
Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/






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