reassign 470027 grub-installer severity 470027 wishlist retitle 470027 Please display a list of all bootable drives and partitions thanks
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:52:40PM -0700, siggma wrote:
> >What you name "it assumes the FIRST physical disk" is in fact just a
> >list of visable physical disks with the cursor on the first disk
> >and waiting for a confirm.
> >
> If I understand what you are saying. Yes, that would be a more useful
> grub install option.
> A list of all bootable drives and partitions with type of partition.
>
> Like this:
>
> ========================================================
>
> I found 2 physical drives: SATA0=sda, SATA1=sdb
> Your BIOS boot drive is SATA1:=sdb
>
> Please choose a boot drive for grub install:
>
> <drive sda> <ntfs, unknown>
> *<drive sdb> <linux, linux-swap>*
>
>
> <Back> <Continue>
> ========================================================
>
> Then:
>
> ===========================================================
>
> I found 2 physical drives: SATA0=sda, SATA1=sdb
> BIOS boot drive is SATA1:=sdb
>
> You chose to install the Grub bootloader to drive SATA1=sdb
> With the following operating system options:
>
> *Linux 2.6.22-3 amd-64 (sdb1)
> Vista/Longhorn (sda1)
> Ubuntu 7.1 Gutsy (sda3)
>
> (*=Default boot drive)
>
> <Back> <Continue>*
> *==========================================================
>
> >Please understand that an installed Debian system only needs one bootable
> >device and it up to the BIOS to decide which from which device should be
> >booted first. There is NO need to mix those two functions.
>
> Have I clearly described what I think is a possible bug issue?
Yes. I have reassigned your proposal to the right package as a
wishlist.
Cheers,
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