[Bug 445416] Re: grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR. This is a BAD idea.

[Jeremy Dawson]

There's no indication in any of the messages that the bug is fixed.  And I can't see that any of them address my own comments in #9.  

As #8 points out there are two issues - (1)  the warning itself, which
doesn't contain (or point to) a clear explanation of the issue, and (2)
the fact that GRUB2 seems to expect to be the only OS present (or that
all other OSes present provide boot code within their own partitions).

As it is I use Grub Legacy (having worked out the errors in its
documentation) and the IT support folk here (ANU) seem to do the same on
the machine they have just installed for me.

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Title:
  grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of
  the MBR.  This is a BAD idea.

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  This error message gets spitted out everytime grub gets updated.
  Similar message from installer when installing grub2 to a partition.

  Setting up grub-common (1.97~beta3-1ubuntu8) ...
  Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/grub-common ...

  Setting up grub-pc (1.97~beta3-1ubuntu8) ...
  grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR.  This is a BAD idea.
  grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.
  Installation finished. No error reported.
  This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
  Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
  fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  7 14:05:55 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: grub2 (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
  SourcePackage: grub2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64

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