Talk:GRUB Floppies to boot large kernels

This article is very important since the kernels getting out of hand. I generally boot from floppy so I can install lot of distros on one hard drive in a extended partition and compare them and test them without disturbing the primary partitions where I have windows (now I have win98 and win2000 same time in the primary partitions). I was under the impression when I boot with the first floppy the menu.lst is executed but it did not (I am not a grub guru even after this experiences). You have to type configfile /menu.lst to execute this file and now you have a menu even you can boot other OS. if you set up this file.I looked the menu.lst file which came with the distro (in this case the blooted Fedora 3)so I can boot my windows also. My other observation is you do not need a /grub directory on the floppy just copy the stage1 and stage2 to the floppy naturally with the menu.lst. Those two grub commands which makes the first floppy bootable are the hart of this operation.