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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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