Brian Laflum wrote: > My floppy drive is set (in BIOS) to the first boot > device (followed by CDROM and then first HDD). The > installer also generated the same error messages if my > BIOS drives were set to CDROM->HDD->nil. > > The relevant ouput to /var/log/syslog was: > ==== > Oct 1 17:53:24 grub-installer: info: Installing grub > on '/dev/fd0' > Oct 1 17:53:24 grub-installer: info: grub-install > supports --no-floppy > Oct 1 17:53:24 grub-installer: info: Running chroot > /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/fd0" > Oct 1 17:53:26 grub-installer: error: Running > 'grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/fd0"' failed. > ==== > > It appears to me that the installer runs grub with the > '--no-floppy' option (ie. it doesn't probe any floppy > drive). Is this the cause of the problem? If so, it > would appear to be a bug, because the installer > purports to allow grub to be installed to fd0. Is > there any way to override this within the installer? Tell it to install to (fd0). It understands that that is a floppy, and will omit the --no-floppy in that case. -- see shy jo
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