Grub boot floppy & Hardware RAID

[theotherphil]

I am just following the instruction for installing Gentoo. Under setting up grub, there is a section specifically for making a grub boot disk for the first boot of a hardware RAID setup.

I have created the boot floppy by doing:

mke2fs /dev/fd0

mounted the floppy:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

and made the following dirs:

/mnt/floppy/boot/
/mnt/floppy/boot/grub/

I then did:

cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub/
cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2 /mnt/floppy/boot/grub/

Now I ran grub:

grub
> root (fd0)

> setup (fd0)

Now, this is where I get an error...specifically:

Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no

Error 15: File not found

This is strange as the stage 1&2 files are actually on the floppy.

Where am I going wrong?

[theotherphil]

OK, found the problem. I have had to fdformat /dev/fd0 before "mke2fs /dev/fd0". Grub obviously doesn't install to a fat filesystem