Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1

[John P. Burkett]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote:
>>>> The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda"
>>>> but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the
>>>> --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the
>>>> (non-existing) floppy drives."  My machine has a floppy drive. Should I
>>>> omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ?
>>> The manual is actually quite clear if you know even just a little bit
>>> about boot loaders.
>>>
>>> Use --no-floppy if
>>>
>>> a) you do not have a floppy drive
>>> b) you do not intend grub to use the floppy drive you do have
>>>
>>> The question you should be asking is "have I ever booted off a floppy
>>> drive in the last X years, and do I ever intend do so again?"
>>>
>>> The first example in the manual is assuming the answers are no and no -
>>> pretty normal for the vast majority of users.
>> Thanks, Dale and Alan, for your suggestions. Doing
>> grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
>> as root elicits the following response:
>> /dev/md1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
>>
>> In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file.
>>
>> Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> John
>
> md1 is a software raid drive. grub may or may not be able to read it depending
> on what kind of raid it is.
>
> But I doubt you are booting from that if you have an sda, so even though grub
> finds it, just don't use it and ignore the message. You told grub where to
> install the boot loader, and it will have done that.
>
Thanks, Alan.  I'll trust that grub works now.
-John


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