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By "assume 'grub 1'", do you mean install grub 0.97?
I used a stage2_eltorito from grub 0.97 but it just gave me a grub 0.97 prompt. I could not locate a configuration file with it, and I would not expect it to be able to use a grub2 file anyway.
Is the documentation out of date? Or did the grub maintainers forget to include the file?
Grub2 has different file names. I don't believe there is a stage2_eltorito but there is an eltorito.img file. If it's not in the directory above, check an installation CD of whatever distribution you are using. Also, take a look at this page, Grub2 manual, Section 3.2 for making a bootable CD:
Thanks for the link, yancek. Once I got past a UUID problem I now have a generic rescue CD. If I had paid more attention to what I was looking at, I would have seen the grub-mkrescue command.
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