How I make a boot disk

Hello.
I'm an absolut Linux beginner and I tried to install archlinux on an external HDD, because my internal windows drives are dynamic logical Volumes and this doesn't work with Linux.
After the installation from the CD I noticed that I cannopt boot from USB HDD because of the BIOS.
How I make a boot disk (floppy) now ? The wiki guide doesn't help because if I boot from the installation CD I don't have the command fdformat and the command pacman - S grub works neither.
Can you help?
Best Regards
BX-8017
Excuse by bad language please, I'm not english!

Ok,
I found a grub boot disk on the net, it was a super grub boot disk. I deleted nearly all files and just copied my files from /boot/grub in the grub directory of the floppy disk. I used the windows tool "explore2fs" to get acces to my boot partition with the grub directory.
Her is my menu.lst:
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc1 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc1 ro vga=773
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
It doesn't work, because the hd 2,0 is not found from grub. (Selected disk does not exist)
It seams that grub is not recognizing my usb hdd at start up ?!?! but this cannot be, because during the installation process it is.
Many Thanks
BX-8017
PS The possibility to boot Arch with the Windows Bootmanager is interesting. Maybe we can discuss this later.....
Last edited by BX-8017 (2007-07-18 15:36:57)

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