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 1MAneX-0006yB-Jt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:12:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE56FE048A; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:12:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from allies.uri.edu (allies.uri.edu [131.128.1.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F27E048A for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 16:12:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [131.128.89.166] (166.89.128.131.dhcp.uri.edu [131.128.89.166]) by allies.uri.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n4VGCY2Z009520 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 12:12:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4A22AC72.9030909@uri.edu> Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:12:34 -0400 From: "John P. Burkett" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090410) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> <200905310701.17002.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905310701.17002.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0e0ec440-6069-4fa4-9d55-545135ac4573 X-Archives-Hash: 3794abc6df797361c3146f9576f81fe5 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 -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195