On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 06:50:05PM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 9/13/19 5:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > On 2019-09-13 16:24, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > Open the case and unplug it? > > > > (golinux ducks and runs) > > > Golinux beat me to it. > > update-grub (grub-mkconfig) uses black magic to find all the bootable > systems within reach.
That's useful information. It does suggest that I have to unplug to get update-grub to work. Does that mean if I temporarily have a disk drive plugged in for any temporary readon, it'll be found and get grub boot records installed on it? Sonds ike it. > I read that somewhere in the comments in one of the > grub scripts. (Note: It won't find encrypted systems except for the one > that's running update-grub.) > > It... wait... what? hdb? I hope that's a typo. > > If the disk is dying, make sure you have everything you want off of it > before you unplug it. > > fsmithred > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
