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 1MAoje-0001f2-0X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:22:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75349E0117; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:22:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.150]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEBD8E0117 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so1265430eyw.10 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 10:22:06 -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-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=NV703qvjTEryepW4aI6pfvB6h9m/7Up+wx/4sY6TiYM=; b=hWbp9+MuxygklDhsE+NODT8nC3YgClYr+333HRjSKWCElYQ04mTlQRaWN/F9WOq2t5 bGh9yOKeoTFIlN9LNREs8qMTFddSGquGRQ8Okw1TQI1ye6/NH9qNrDqMrkjyeLV5KHSj zMpXtfosOsQT8ANydv7EKNAZAbutgcmIO94f0= 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-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=qkz6JdqUYpMQHMX2u4PA3EDVvEJjAGKzJs4PdDcJPfyJCTAaKHjvspM2Icj83PrrWG ZTsq+9YnNaxyegulfmyGlq2ZwVc1azUC6HgN81YDKqWb9xh+efWCHw/Iu5ACOl7skuT6 n7bXvAdNl5M3fS9Opi1HLZj1vbbtO/xXCILh8= Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr5301019ebi.49.1243790526359; Sun, 31 May 2009 10:22:06 -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 10sm5339175eyd.22.2009.05.31.10.22.05 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 10:22:05 -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 19:20:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> <200905310701.17002.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4A22AC72.9030909@uri.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A22AC72.9030909@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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905311920.40452.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 69e1fac5-a814-416f-b7f7-a80a59f08163 X-Archives-Hash: 2fc925f483d1af1ea3e44fa99df057f0 On Sunday 31 May 2009 18:12:34 John P. Burkett wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks, Dale and Alan, for your suggestions. Doing > grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda > as root elicits the following response: > /dev/md1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. > > In my /dev directory, I see a sda and a md1 file. > > Suggestions for diagnosing or resolving the problem would be much > appreciated. > > John md1 is a software raid drive. grub may or may not be able to read it depending on what kind of raid it is. But I doubt you are booting from that if you have an sda, so even though grub finds it, just don't use it and ignore the message. You told grub where to install the boot loader, and it will have done that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com