Bug#535539: grub-pc: fixed by doing a new grub-install

[Kevin Mitchell]

Package: grub-pc
Severity: normal


After running 

grub-install /dev/sda 

to reinstall grub to my master boot record, I found that this problem went away. 

Evidently, --no-floppy option is suppored by the new version, but not by the version that
was previously on my MBR.

I would suggest either 
a) leaving the --no-floppy option out by default
b) having debconf prompt to reinstall grub to mbr on upgrade

Kevin



-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/root / xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/sda7 /i386/home xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/root /i386/tmp xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
/dev/root /i386/etc/apt xfs rw,noatime,noquota 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'transitional-i386'), (500, 'transitional'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental'), (204, 'unstable-i386'), (203, 'testing-i386'), (202, 'stable-i386'), (201, 'experimental-i386')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.014 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.27          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090702-1 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.9-18          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  ucf                      3.0018          Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
pn  desktop-base                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  genisoimage                   9:1.1.9-1  Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii  os-prober                     1.29       utility to detect other OSes on a 

-- debconf information:
  grub-pc/linux_cmdline:
  grub-pc/chainload_from_menu.lst: true
  grub-pc/install_devices: