host does not boot with grub_pc and /dev/sdd as boot disk

[andrew bezella]

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 16:46 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
[...] 
> 
> My boot disk is not hd0, but hd3 (that means sdd as in disk_var.sh).
> But 10-setup just installs grub into hd0.
> 
[...] 
> 
> After manually calling $ROOTCMD grub-install --no-floppy "(hd3)"
> everything works just fine.
> 
> 
> Any comments?

there was some discussion last month of GRUB_PC/10-setup and recent
changes that have been made to it, including some addressing that
shortcoming.[1]

i believe that one fix (working for me w/3.3.5ubuntu3 installing lucid)
is to change the line to:
$ROOTCMD grub-install --no-floppy "$BOOT_DEVICE"

hth

andy


[1] https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2010-October/008418.html

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