[KLUG Members] RE: Re: Dual boot problem on home computer (Adam Tauno Williams)

[Bruce Smith]

> Perhaps it would be easier and safer to figure out how to make a kernel
> bzImage and create a boot floppy disk?

You can create a grub boot floppy to boot Linux from any HDD/partition.
No kernel is required on the floppy.

> Anyone have any experience making a boot floppy to load Linux from a hard
> drive on a secondary IDE channel or setting up a GRUB config on a primary
> IDE channel to boot a kernel on a secondary IDE channel?

IBM has a nice grub tutorial on GRUB that walks you through making a
grub boot floppy.  I _think_ this is it, from a quick google:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linuxgrub-i.html

 - BS