Hello Peter,
On 29/04/2023 at 16:02, Peter Ehlert wrote:
Legacy aka BIOS booting
system has 4 physical disk drives, all GPT partition tables
only one drive has a partition with bios_grub
install was on a drive without bios_grub
when install was finished, a list of drives was displayed, asking
where to install GRUB.
the install drive was highlighted
I selected the drive with bios_grub
the display showed "installing GRUB on (...drive it was installed on...)
According to /var/log/syslog, GRUB was successfully installed on
/dev/sdb although this drive has no BIOS boot partition:
Apr 28 23:55:51 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb'
Apr 28 23:55:51 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support
--no-floppy
Apr 28 23:55:51 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target
grub-install --force "/dev/sdb"
Apr 28 23:55:51 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
Apr 28 23:56:01 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: this GPT
partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be
possible.
Apr 28 23:56:01 grub-installer: grub-install: warning: Embedding is not
possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using
blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is
discouraged..
Apr 28 23:56:01 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
Apr 28 23:56:01 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
(several other OS's are on that drive if that matters)
reboot gave me the Old GRUB menu, not including my new system.
What do you mean by "old GRUB menu" ? The GRUB which was previously
installed on /dev/sdb ?