Ubuntu
grub-installer package

GRUB fails to load from floppy if installed by grub-install with Ubuntu's installer. (Hoary)

Bug #13469 reported by Sebastián E. Peyrott
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This bug affects 28 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Colin Watson

Bug Description

In expert mode, when prompted where to locate the GRUB boot loader, you can set
it to be installed in a floppy (fd0).
The resulting floppy does not boot, only showing "GRUB" and nothing else.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Which CD were you using when you encountered this bug? There was an issue which
caused grub to fail on amd64, which has been fixed in recent milestone releases,
including Array 6:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/array-6/

If you used an earlier release, can you re-test with Array 6?

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Sebastián E. Peyrott (pse) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which CD were you using when you encountered this bug? There was an issue which
> caused grub to fail on amd64, which has been fixed in recent milestone releases,
> including Array 6:
>
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hoary/array-6/
>
> If you used an earlier release, can you re-test with Array 6?

I was using Array 5. If there's a way to test the bootloader from the CD without
reintalling the whole system, I'll give it a try. I'll start downloading Array 6
to see if it can be done... Perhaps in expert mode?

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

No reply in 8 months, closing as FIXED since mdz's comment suggests that this
should have been fixed in array-6

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