Joey Hess wrote:
Nicolas Will wrote:OK, so it finally worked, it just takes an awfuly long time, it says so on the console, but I wasn't expecting it to be that long... Apparently it is linked to the lack of floppy drive in my system.This is fixed in the daily builds, grub-installer will not probe for a floppy drive by default.
Nice.
That floppy drive thing.... On the first choice of hardware detection, I unchecked the floppy part. But then later on during the intall (at least in expert mode) it just inserts the module without asking...and makes grub even longer...I don't know what would have loaded the floppy module behind your back in expert mode.
I had the error messages on the consoles, so they must have been due to Grub then.
Please excuse my confusion. What about the lilo/devfs stuff? Nico