Debian
grub-installer package

  1. Bug #32357
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 32357

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In , Fraser Campbell (fraser-wehave) wrote : Re: Bug#283312: it would be cool if the Debian installer checked which MBR to do a grub-install with multiple hard drives

On Saturday 27 November 2004 20:26, Greg Orlowski wrote:

> It was late at night, and I was tired and bleary eyed, but when it
> asked "Install Grub to MBR" I said yes. Unfortunately, while I
> partitioned only the sata drive and installed the base system to only
> that drive, it automatically did a grub-install (hd0) on the ide
> drive. It would be cool if, when installing on a multiple-hard-drive
> system, you could ask the user WHICH hard drive's MBR to use for a
> grub install.

This would be useful when installing on a system with software raid, I usually
like to install grub to the MBR of both disks a raid1 set.

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Fraser Campbell <email address hidden> http://www.wehave.net/
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux