I find that doing an install, using the grub shell, to the MBR
causes the floppy disk to be accessed, even though all the files
needed for the install are located on (hd0,0).
Doing the same install, using the stand alone grub, does not
access the floppy disk at all.
Here is a typescript of the grub shell install,
26 jsroot ~/grub # make mbr
Probe devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GRUB version 0.5.93.1 (640K lower / 4096K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first
word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB
lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ESC at any time exits. ]
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x6
grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2
p /boot/grub/men u.lst
grub> quit
make [mbr]: note: /dev/hda1 is now unmounted from /dos-c
and here is the syslog entry caused by the floppy access, which of
course did not have a floppy disk inserted,
Nov 19 14:23:22 eden-hda7 kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on
device fd(2,0)
Nov 19 14:23:22 eden-hda7 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
02:00 (floppy), sector 0
Thanks,
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Jeff Sheinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
