From 154c0ce4dfee62b5d8671c9d022ee5cd92f5be20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 19:21:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed creation of a GRUB boot disk. Fixes #2706.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9336 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter01/changelog.xml | 11 +++++++++++
 chapter08/grub.xml      |  8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index f2d9080a7..3d50f4181 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2010-07-07</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>[matthew] - Fixed creation of a GRUB boot disk.  Fixes
+           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2706">#2706</ulink>. Thanks to
+           Sebastian Plotz for the report and fix.</para>
+         </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2010-07-04</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml
index cf0b4fbe4..70145d303 100644
--- a/chapter08/grub.xml
+++ b/chapter08/grub.xml
@@ -32,8 +32,12 @@
     following commands:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /tmp
-grub-mkrescue --image-type=floppy floppy.img
-dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440 count=1</userinput></screen>
+grub-mkrescue --output=grub-img.iso
+dd if=grub-img.iso of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440 count=1</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Alternatively, a boot CD can be created by using your host system's
+    CD burning tools to burn the <filename>grub-img.iso</filename> on to a
+    blank CD.</para>
 
     <para>GRUB uses its own naming structure for drives and partitions in
     the form of <emphasis>(hdn,m)</emphasis>, where <emphasis>n</emphasis>