Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2009, 11:00 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Dear GRUB-Maintainers,
Hi, > since version 1.96+20090401-1 the grub-pc package asks the user to run > grub-install during postinst. This is a very nice idea, thank you very > much! > > However, the package recommends to install GRUB to all drives if > unsure which drive is designated as boot device by the BIOS. The list > to select the possible drives also contains /dev/fd0. With other > words, the postinst dialog recommends to install GRUB on my floppy. > The list is taken from device.map. So once it was created without --no-floppy option to grub-install. Maybe from some old grub-legacy version? > I have seen in grub-pc.postinst that the grub-install command is > called with the --no-floppy option. Shouldn't this prevent it from > probing the floppy drive at all? --no-floppy only works if device.map doestn't exist. It's only used for the creation of it. > [Is there any reason why I get to read the grub-mkrescue manpage when > I type "man grub-install" and have to type "man 8 grub-install" to > actually read the right manpage?] `man grub-install' works fine for me. Maybe `sudo mandb -c' helps. I don't know. -- Felix Zielcke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org