On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:53:18AM +0200, Redalert Commander wrote: > I have the same issue, however it is not just after updating the > latest version, but pretty much every grub update that breaks. > > The issue is in either grub failing to install to the MBR on some > drives or grub skipping that step altogether. > I have an 8 disk system, the first one is a HDD for /home, this is the > one my BIOS points to for booting. The second is an SSD with / and > /boot (same partition). the other 6 are HDDs for data and grub is > unable to install the bootloader there (not really an issue since they > aren't used for booting). > I think grub is failing on those 6 drives. > Whenever there is a grub update I need to manually execute > "grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sdd" to make the system bootable.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc ... and configure it properly. Presumably you switched disks at some point in the past and didn't tell the GRUB packaging so that it could sort this out; in general this does work if done properly. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
