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

[Fabian Greffrath]

Felix Zielcke schrieb:
> 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?

Yes, that's possible.

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

Even if it is passed to grub-install?

Then I believe something like the attached patch should be applied to 
grub-pc.postinst to prevent floppy drives from appearing in the list 
of possible grub-install targets in the first place.

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

Yes, that helped. Thank you very much!


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