Bug#627260: Fails to detect and install to IDE /boot partition

[Chris Knadle]

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> I was able to complete installation of v 1.99-3 by installing Grub into the
> MBR of /dev/hde, however the MBR had the GAG bootloader installed before
> doing this, but I needed to to have the correct version of Grub installed
> to write a correct bug report.  At least on this box, I've yet to have Grub
> install to the MBR on top of GAG and result in a booting system, so I'm
> writing this bug report before trying a reboot.  I'll report back results
> of the reboot.

Turns out Grub did manage to install itself into the MBR in /dev/hde and the 
reboot was fine.  Thankfully I don't need the GAG bootloader at present.

As such I'm leaving this bug's severity as "normal" because the situation with 
this disk is a bit out of the norm, even if the behavior grub 1.99-3 exhibits 
when it comes to installing into /boot on /dev/hde2 is technically a 
regression from 1.99~rc1-13.

Let me know if you would like me to run further tests.
Thanks.

  -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us