drops-demo from hard disk

[Shakthi Kannan]

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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Shakthi Kannan, MS
Software Engineer, Specsoft (Hexaware Technologies)
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