[lug] "boot floppy" CD creation recommendations

[Bear Giles]

I'm trying to figure out how to create a "boot floppy" CD.  By that I 
mean a 1.44MB image that I can put into the 'el Torino' boot sector and 
boot straight to the HD, same as the floppy rescue disk.

If the system had a floppy drive.

I don't want/need something like 'knoppix' since this should be entirely 
automatic and can be keyed to this specific system.  I remember using 
syslinux to create the current boot CD two years ago, but I also 
remember that process as being painful and creating a high stack of 
coasters.

I have grub on the system, so getting to it should be enough.  I don't 
know if I can do that via syslinux.

Ideas?

(Why go to this bother?  The bios on this 'server grade hardware', 
probably to drive their own $$$ hard drives, does not recognize IDE 
drives as bootable disks. )

Bear