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
