Haven't replaced /dev/hdb yet.
Is there some way of getting it ignored in the following scenario?

I started aptitude.
It told me it hadn't been cleanly shut down last time, and recommended 
I do
    dpkg --configure -a
before I do anything else.

I do that, and the system apparently does some cleanup, generating 
initrd images, and then starts to update grub.

Update-grub stalls on block 51 of device /dev/hdb, trying to do 
something with it over and over (as presented on the main system 
console, which is *not* the one I'm trying to run aptitude on)

Now evidently /dev/hdb is not working and will need to be replaced.

But isn't there some way to tell grub to ignore /dev/hdb?
What is it that controls which drives grub tries to work with.
It must get this from somewhere.  I did not specify or mention /dev/hdb 
anywhere in my dpkg --configure -a.  And there are several other drives 
I could use to install grub and a boot record.  I can even use the 
grub-install command to do so.  So why, oh why, does it pick on 
/dev/sdb?

-- hendrik

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