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
