[KLUG Members] GRUB question

[Bruce Smith]

> I'm trying to learn more about GRUB . . .  Starting with a startup diskette.
> I dd'd Stage1 and Stage2 to the disk, which does boot to the GRUB> prompt.

That's a good sign.

> From there do I just enter the commands from grub.conf namely: root, kernel,
> and initrd?  

Yup.

> If so, it's not working.  

It should.

> However, everything boots fine from the harddisk.  What am I missing?

Typing something wrong? 

Did you create the diskette with _all_ of the required files?
Including the stage 1_5 files?  Can grub read your filesystem?

Can't tell without more info.

 - BS