Howto make a grub fat boot floppy

[strauman at slac.stanford.edu (Till Straumann)]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to make a grub boot floppy
> with a menu using the latest grub in Fedora 8.
> It boots into grub but I don't seem to be
> able to make it find the menu.lst file.
>   
Where is your menu.lst ? I believe grub
would expect it in /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
i.e., in the same directory where the xxx_stage_yyy
files live.

T.
> I followed these instructions from the grub
> info pages except I make it a FAT filesystem
>
>      # mke2fs /dev/fd0
>      # mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
>      # grub-install --root-directory=/mnt fd0
>      # umount /mnt
>
> When I boot it, I get to a grub prompt.  I have
> to be missing something stupid.  Can any tell me
> what it is?
>
> Thanks.
>
>