From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MAdC3-00076D-KT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 05:02:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5C44E0375; Sun, 31 May 2009 05:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8420BE0375 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 05:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so6486483ewy.34 for ; Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TumkOn6YguVdWX5Izke4oBPq6xvHxYWPuD8KQ4VQVLU=; b=TwUGUNu+z6hC6Jala9mubqjgfqsJzhBmKazvcQVY6iG2/UtZBD1G3dy6IBjHs8sGu7 XKpIG4EiNYmJKqCkE/Cx9wBShC5WOCungdg2yrtDVLpVpsrMpXnbHW3iuDcBOBC5mmwR IMLaTiKV4+hhbgesk28umau7KUWMZSeTLZ4Us= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Vk1kozsnMI8U5ZWhCEWS0rFvrQ5H4PWZGX605EqBJLqEq2BujKemDilBZC8oCat6s1 +ywPyLLrbz+Qlrm7gj5EuL0KdzsZXnP43lNa14EN9awJQroAaoFdEY/GoYrS+0A/YDAc oEM9JVaNEZm1OJLcHVHuaGy1XRQQRF2Bg8l5E= Received: by 10.210.11.17 with SMTP id 17mr4656371ebk.1.1243746164992; Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm5373274eyg.34.2009.05.30.22.02.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 07:01:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905310701.17002.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7b6c55a4-9433-4d3b-af0d-ca350bf50da8 X-Archives-Hash: 82c9b8a109604485740101d01d30b1a4 On Saturday 30 May 2009 20:59:00 John P. Burkett wrote: > The manual suggests doing "grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" > but later says "If your system does not have any floppy drives, add the > --no-floppy option to the above command to prevent grub from probing the > (non-existing) floppy drives." My machine has a floppy drive. Should I > omit the --no-floppy option and just do "grub-install /dev/sda" ? The manual is actually quite clear if you know even just a little bit about boot loaders. Use --no-floppy if a) you do not have a floppy drive b) you do not intend grub to use the floppy drive you do have The question you should be asking is "have I ever booted off a floppy drive in the last X years, and do I ever intend do so again?" The first example in the manual is assuming the answers are no and no - pretty normal for the vast majority of users. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com