Bug#496035: further follow-up

Felix Zielcke fzielcke at z-51.de
Sun Aug 31 08:56:12 UTC 2008


Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 09:32 +0100 schrieb Anthony Campbell:

Hello Anthony,

> I've just found #496040, which seems to relate to the same problem. If I
> comment out the /dev/fd0 line in /boot/grub/device.map the error no
> longer appears. I'm afraid I don't know how or where to apply the
> supplied patch and I don't know if it's OK to comment out the above line
> permanently.

The error is shown by grub-probe which belongs to the grub-common binary
package which is from the grub2 source.
fd0 is just your first floppy drive, you shouldn't need it for grub :)
For grub-legacy we prefer to now show the errors at all, but as far as I
could see this hasn't yet been approved by the Release Managers.

-- 
Felix Zielcke






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