grub-install seeks for floppy drive which does not exist

[Reijo Tomperi]

I'm using Jaunty beta.

After installation, I try to install grub from the system where I have booted into.

The problem is that it takes about 10 minutes for grub-install to do this work. It seems to be seeking for floppy drive, which I don't have at all in this machine. As nowadays machines like this are becoming more and more common, this issue might need some sort of fix.

I execute command:
# grub-install /dev/sda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Installing GRUB to /dev/sda as (hd0)...
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'.

(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb

Into syslog i get several errors like this:
Apr 1 02:10:13 ubuntu kernel: [69424.609171] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Apr 1 02:10:13 ubuntu kernel: [69424.609182] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
Apr 1 02:10:25 ubuntu kernel: [69436.924432] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Apr 1 02:10:37 ubuntu kernel: [69449.081756] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Apr 1 02:10:50 ubuntu kernel: [69461.253364] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Apr 1 02:10:50 ubuntu kernel: [69461.253374] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0

grub:
  Installed: 0.97-29ubuntu51
  Candidate: 0.97-29ubuntu51
  Version table:
 *** 0.97-29ubuntu51 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated report & no more maintained distro; please send a new one if that issue still exist (using ubuntu-bug)