Greetings!
I would like to know if its possible to dump the drops-demo-floppy.img to a primary partition of the hard disk and boot from it?
I tried dumping the image to /dev/hdb3 using dd:
dd if=drops-demo-floppy.img of=/dev/hdb3 bs=512 count=2880
The above worked fine. I tried to boot it from grub in the MBR using:
root (hd0,3) chainloader +1
I get
" root (hd0,3) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83 chainloader +1 GRUB"
Do we need any filesystem support in drops-demo-floppy.img for it?
My GNU/Linux boot entry is: " root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hdb3 ro single initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.27-2-386 boot "
My partitioning scheme is: /dev/hdb1 - fat32 (data) /dev/hdb2 - swap /dev/hdb3 - linux /dev/hdb4 - 1.44 drops image
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
SK
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