On 6/29/20 6:22 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 05:49:29PM +0200, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba > wrote: >> Hi, Hendrik. >> >> El Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:37:45 -0400 >> Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> escribió: >> >>> Where is it configured which drives get updated when I update the kernel, >>> as part of a regular upgrade using aptitude. >> >> debconf has a configuration option for that. >> >> try: dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > > That was what I was looking for. It's what I remember seeing long long > ago during installation or major upgrade. > > So I told it not to use /dev/sdb's boot record. > > And it decided to try to write to sector 51 on /dev/sdb anyway, > Is it maybe trying to remove the boot stuff on that drive? > > I think there's no help for it but to find my screwdriver and physically > remove the disk.
Hi, if you are brave you can erase grub from mbr of the disk: Zero out MBR. (but not all of it!) You need to use 'dd' to erase the MBR. For my machine the command was: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/YOUR_DRIVE bs=446 count=1 Why the 'bs=446'? Because the rest of your MBR holds the partition table for the drive... which you do not want to destroy. Use at your own risk Ciao, Tito > That will take a while. > > -- hendrik > > >> >> if you see nothing interesting, retry with the -plow option. >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba s...@gpoc.es >> -=- buscando empleo desde 1988 -=- www.gpoc.es >> >> PGP: 3F87 CCE7 8B35 8C06 E637 2D57 5723 9984 718C A614 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng