Hendrik Boom wrote on 14/9/19 1:03 pm: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 06:50:05PM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: >> On 9/13/19 5:43 PM, goli...@devuan.org wrote: >>> On 2019-09-13 16:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>>> Haven't replaced /dev/hdb yet. >>>> Is there some way of getting it ignored in the following scenario? >>>> >>>> I started aptitude. >>>> It told me it hadn't been cleanly shut down last time, and recommended >>>> I do >>>> dpkg --configure -a >>>> before I do anything else. >>>> >>>> I do that, and the system apparently does some cleanup, generating >>>> initrd images, and then starts to update grub. >>>> >>>> Update-grub stalls on block 51 of device /dev/hdb, trying to do >>>> something with it over and over (as presented on the main system >>>> console, which is *not* the one I'm trying to run aptitude on) >>>> >>>> Now evidently /dev/hdb is not working and will need to be replaced. >>>> >>>> But isn't there some way to tell grub to ignore /dev/hdb? >>>> What is it that controls which drives grub tries to work with. >>>> It must get this from somewhere. I did not specify or mention /dev/hdb >>>> anywhere in my dpkg --configure -a. And there are several other drives >>>> I could use to install grub and a boot record. I can even use the >>>> grub-install command to do so. So why, oh why, does it pick on >>>> /dev/sdb? >>>> >>>> -- hendrik >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Open the case and unplug it? >>> >>> (golinux ducks and runs) >> >> >> Golinux beat me to it. >> >> update-grub (grub-mkconfig) uses black magic to find all the bootable >> systems within reach. > > That's useful information. It does suggest that I have to unplug to > get update-grub to work. > > Does that mean if I temporarily have a disk drive plugged in for any > temporary readon, it'll be found and get grub boot records installed on > it? > > Sonds ike it. >
That same question apparently came up a while ago at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56004/how-to-stop-update-grub-from-scanning-all-drives In short: do something to /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober (which is a shell script) Ralph. >> ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
