Re: painted into a corner

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Subject: Re: painted into a corner
From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:08:07 -0400
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Gene Heskett composed on 2018-08-21 20:29 (UTC-0400):

> it will not install grub on anything but /dev/sda.

I've been scratching my head trying to remember the details of bootloader
installation in debian-installer and coming up nada, except for somehow being
able to specify /dev/null as location, let it complain about bootloader
installation failure, and not have it corrupt my existing bootloader
configuration, which always includes generic/legacy compatible MBR code.
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