[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grub-install help
Format of install_device not recognized.
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help print this message and exit
-v, --version print the version information and exit
--root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR
instead of the root directory
--grub-shell=FILE use FILE as the grub shell
--no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive
--force-lba force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy
BIOS
--recheck probe a device map even if it already exists
This flag is unreliable and its use is
strongly discouraged.
I haven't personally tried "--no-floppy" myself, but if it does work and
one does add a switch to systemconfigurator, then I'd imagine you'd add
a switch to SystemImager as well so that it can tell SC when to use it,
the only questions being where to put the switch(es)! getimage?
mkautoinstallscript? elsewhere?
-mark
Bernard Li wrote:
>Hi Mark:
>
>If you can find out the switch, then yes I think it is something useful to add
>to SystemConfigurator.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bernard
>
>________________________________
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark Seger
>Sent: Mon 24/07/2006 14:44
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] what about systems with no floppy drives?
>
>
>
>not doing anything with UYOK. I have been told by others there's a
>grub-install switch to tell it not to look for the floppy, might that be
>another potential switch for systemconfigurator?
>-mark
>
>Andrea Righi wrote:
>
>
>
>>At the beginning of the installation there's only a:
>>
>> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -o ro > /dev/null 2>&1
>>
>>you shouldn't see dozen of errors... if you see them, It's the kernel...
>>are you using UYOK in this case?
>>
>>In my tests I never used machines with floppy and it just prints a quick
>>error... anyway the mount command is done to try to read the local.cfg
>>
>>
>>from a floppy, but IMHO we could consider this file deprecated... we can
>
>
>>simply add the local.cfg parameters in the kernel boot options, or not?
>>
>>Regarding grub-install... well... it's a grub problem, a workaround
>>could be to remove fd0 from the device.map, but for that I think we need
>>to address the issue to the grub developers.
>>
>>-Andrea
>>
>>Mark Seger wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>More info - I've tried manually running grub-install and it too is
>>>generating a lot of I/O errors on fd0. Is this something I just have to
>>>live with? It's really horrible...
>>>-mark
>>>
>>>Mark Seger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>There's a section near the beginning of the installation that says
>>>>"checking for floppy diskette." I'm getting an I/O error, dev fdo,
>>>>sector 0 about ever 10 seconds and I'm sure it's because this system
>>>>doesn't have a floppy. If they're just warnings, and I think they
>>>>are, should there be a message to ignore the like the message that
>>>>says to ignore "wrong magic" errors? However, the real issues if
>>>>there are almost 2 dozen of these and they significantly slow down the
>>>>installation.
>>>>
>>>>Any way to reduce or maybe even eliminate the checks, or isn't this
>>>>under SI control?
>>>>
>>>>-mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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