Bug#600580: unbootable when installing on USB drive

[Robert Millan]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100804-4
Severity: grave
Tags: fixed-upstream

When the boot drive contains partitions (as usual), but is identified
as a floppy by the BIOS, GRUB skips the partitions.

As a result, with certain BIOSes it becomes impossible to install Debian
on an USB drive.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.35          Debian configuration management sy
ii  grub-common              1.98+20100804-4 GRand Unified Bootloader, version 
ii  libc6                    2.11.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1       2:1.02.48-3     The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  ucf                      3.0025+nmu1     Update Configuration File: preserv

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.6      common files for the Debian Deskto

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/grub changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded