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You don't say which distro you are using but I had the same problem with Debian. No matter which method I used I could never get grub installed to a floppy. It always behaved as you have described. Eventually I found a very simple way - in my case with Debian it was grub-install /dev/fd0. That was it. I made an iso of the floppy and made a bootcd as well.
I am really thanks for your reply !
In fact, I haved try grub-install command already.
But the result come from grub-install is falied, either !
So I start to try the grub shell.
But ...... still get the same result .... /_\
I would suggest formating for ext2 not ext3 since you don't really need journal support for the device. The command grub-install in Debian writes the stage1 to the boot sector and this links to stage2 and then menu.lst on the hard drive.
I am really appreciate for your attention to my thread ^_^
In fact, I have tried both of ext2 and ext3.
By the way, I use GNU GRUB 0.95
I have tried to use every commands that I can see from the documents from internet:
grub-install or grub shell directly
But all in vain ..... :-(
even that I found some commands are wrong......
But I found that if I install a mini (about 350MB) Linux on a 512MB CF card by the SuSE CD
The GRUB will just install correctlly into the CF card and boot correctly !
But If I try to install GRUB into a smaller CF card (64 MB) that couldn't install the mini (about 350MB) Linux by SuSE CD manually, I just couldn't correctly install it.
I really don't finger out "WHY?"
Because I have study the manula document from the GNU, and follow the commands they post.
Why the CD can install GRUB correctly into CF card, but I couldn't ?
I really confused ..... :- (
I don't have such media myself so can not help but I was thinking out loud
Q1 Does this device become visilble to the bios on boot up?
Do you know if your motherboard manufacturer has a flash upgrade that will allow your media thru a pci slot become a bootable device?
Q2 This device bootable under windows?
the reason I asked is if its not an usb device, your bios may have some trouble recognising it as a bootable device until an operating system is up and running......and I gather you want it to be bootable and not just act as a storage device?
The previous info on ext2 ext3 is relevant as you have limited space so a journal system writes extra stuff to your device and eats up free space.
In Australia usb devices start around 40 aussie dollars
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