Hello folks, (still catching up with a bunch of unread mails on debian-boot@…) Bart-Jan Vrielink <bartjan@vrielink.net> (25/11/2012): > On 25-11-12 18:46, Brian Potkin wrote: > >GRUB tells you: > > > > If all of your operating systems are listed above, then it > > should be safe to install the boot loader to the master > > boot record of your first hard drive. > > > >In fact, GRUB will always install to /dev/sda, which may or may not be > >the MBR of your first hard drive. I do not know why this screen cannot > >say GRUB will go in the MBR of /dev/sda. > > > >Also, how could GRUB guess you really wanted it in the MBR of /dev/sdX? > >I think this is why you are given the opportunity to decline its offer. > > Well, maybe because it is not that unusual to boot off an USB stick > in order to install the OS? More and more laptops come without > optical drives these days, and an installer should be able to cope > with that... > Yeah, there is a manual option to override, but GRUB should be > smarter than that, and attempt to install to the first drive on > which software was installed to, and not just the alphabetically > first drive. I've suggested something along those lines in #696615, please see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696615#10 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696615#17 I'd be happy to have some feedback on that proposal. That includes heading about scenarios where a currently good behaviour would be broken by such an implementation. Mraw, KiBi.
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