Joey, I partially retract my email response to you. I resolved the problem but I still think there's a bug. (Luckily, it's been raining here and I've had time to play with the new installer.)
The first time i tried the installer, i manually entered "fd0" as the location for grub to be installed. This didn't work (no parentheses). So i selected 'go back' and entered "/dev/fd0" - this didn't work either. I selected 'go back' again and entered "(fd0)" - which should have worked, but it didn't. The installation screen states that you can install to the floppy by manually entering either "(fd0)" OR "/dev/fd0". So far, neither of these had worked for me. As noted in my earlier message, the logs indicated that grub was being run with the --no-floppy option. I see now that was only when using "/dev/fd0". By watching the logs, i've subsequently noted that "(fd0)" doesn't cause the --no-floppy option to be used, whereas using "/dev/fd0" does cause that option to be used. (The first part of the bug??) However, that didn't explain why "(fd0)", when entered correctly, didn't work. I then discovered a bug report that noted that "(fd0) /dev/fd0" wasn't being written to /target/boot/grub/device.map during installation: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265949 That bug report suggested editing the device.map file to include the fd0 line. In the process of attempting to do exactly that, i observed that the fd0 line was only omitted if anything other than "(fd0)" is entered for the first time at the grub installation stage. Might this be why "(fd0)" entered *subsequently* to "/dev/fd0" fails? (The second part of the bug??) Ie. should the files in the grub directory be re-written/deleted whenever grub installation fails and a user selects 'go back'? (I note that selecting the 'continue' option also takes the user back to the main menu.) In summary, "(fd0)" did work for me but only if it was the very first thing i entered manually at the grub install stage. If i entered anything else such as "/dev/fd0" or just "fd0" then going back and CORRECTLY entering "(fd0)" fails. It seems to me that many users might incorrectly enter the value here for the first time. It also seems that would cause the correct value to, subsequently, not work. Cheers, BL --- Brian Laflum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:00:51 -0700 (PDT) > From: Brian Laflum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Fwd: Grub install fails. > To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, > > Thanks but that's the problem; that's exactly what i > did. That is: I did manually enter fd0, but the > installer still appears to have used the --no-floppy > option. (Which is why I'm wondering whether it's a > bug.) > > > > > Tell it to install to (fd0). It understands that > > that is a floppy, and > > will omit the --no-floppy in that case. > > > > -- > > see shy jo > > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature > name=signature.asc > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
