FWD: why does grub-installer prompt for a grub-style disk name?

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:48:38PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> ask the grub-installer team.

Jason, I believe grub-installer is maintained by the debian-boot team and
Joey Hess is one of them.

> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:19:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > [...] So I was suprised to notice that grub-install accepts /dev/
> > > filenames. Is there some reason to not use them by default?

Does this concern the grub-install util in grub?

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Robert Millan

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