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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: |
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>> The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" |
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>> but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the |
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>> --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the |
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>> (non-existing) floppy drives." My machine has a floppy drive. Should I |
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>> omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ? |
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> The manual is actually quite clear if you know even just a little bit about |
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> boot loaders. |
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> Use --no-floppy if |
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> a) you do not have a floppy drive |
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> b) you do not intend grub to use the floppy drive you do have |
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> The question you should be asking is "have I ever booted off a floppy drive in |
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> the last X years, and do I ever intend do so again?" |
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> The first example in the manual is assuming the answers are no and no - pretty |
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> normal for the vast majority of users. |
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Thanks, Dale and Alan, for your suggestions. Doing |
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grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda |
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as root elicits the following response: |
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/dev/md1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. |
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In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file. |
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Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much |
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appreciated. |
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John |
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John P. Burkett |
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Department of Economics |
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University of Rhode Island |
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Kingston, RI 02881-0808 |
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USA |
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phone (401) 874-9195 |