[Bug 486151] [NEW] grub-pc will not install grub to the mbr of an IDE slave drive

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 21.11.2009, 03:50 +0000 schrieb sojourner:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: grub2
> 
> The install of the system is normal and no errors are reported but
> grub2
> is not actually installed to the mbr when it is directed to an IDE
> slave
> drive . this has been occuring since grub2 was introduced in karmic
> and
> continues with the lucid daily live cds. the system is installed and
> can
> be chrooted to . When grub-install is run from within the chroot it
> also
> fails to install grub to the mbr of the slave drive . grub2 is
> installed
> correctly when directed to any other drive on the system either ide
> master or sata .
> 

How does it fail if you run grub-install yourself?
And you use grub-install /dev/hdb and not /dev/hdb1 or some other
partition?

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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grub-pc will not install grub to the mbr of an IDE slave drive
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