Bug#530848: Recommends to run grub-install against /dev/fd0

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2009, 11:00 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:

> Dear GRUB-Maintainers,

Hi,

> since version 1.96+20090401-1 the grub-pc package asks the user to run 
> grub-install during postinst. This is a very nice idea, thank you very 
> much!
> 
> However, the package recommends to install GRUB to all drives if 
> unsure which drive is designated as boot device by the BIOS. The list 
> to select the possible drives also contains /dev/fd0. With other 
> words, the postinst dialog recommends to install GRUB on my floppy.
> 

The list is taken from device.map. So once it was created without
--no-floppy option to grub-install. Maybe from some old grub-legacy
version?

> I have seen in grub-pc.postinst that the grub-install command is 
> called with the --no-floppy option. Shouldn't this prevent it from 
> probing the floppy drive at all?

--no-floppy only works if device.map doestn't exist. It's only used for
the creation of it.

> [Is there any reason why I get to read the grub-mkrescue manpage when 
> I type "man grub-install" and have to type "man 8 grub-install" to 
> actually read the right manpage?]

`man grub-install' works fine for me. Maybe `sudo mandb -c' helps. I
don't know.
-- 
Felix Zielcke