Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. > Thanks, Alan. I'll trust that grub works now. -John
-- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
