Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Guy Marcenac wrote: > Guy Marcenac a écrit : > > Bob Proulx a écrit : > > > Is there any reason you would not want to install grub to /dev/sda? > > Is there ? It is your system. Therefore it is impossible for us to know. It is unusual to install to a partition. Therefore the implication is that

Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-21 Thread Guy Marcenac
Le 21/10/2013 08:23, Guy Marcenac a écrit : Le 20/10/2013 23:39, Bob Proulx a écrit : [...] How should I do to come back to a correct installation of grub? note: this is a remote server I manage through ssh Hopefully you can get on the console to see console messages and to take corrective con

Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-20 Thread Guy Marcenac
Le 20/10/2013 23:39, Bob Proulx a écrit : [...] How should I do to come back to a correct installation of grub? note: this is a remote server I manage through ssh Hopefully you can get on the console to see console messages and to take corrective console action? Yes? No? Hello Bob, I do But

Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Guy Marcenac wrote: > Gary Dale a écrit : > >Guy Marcenac wrote: > >>Setting up grub-pc (1.99-27+deb7u2) ... > >>/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a > >>partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. It would be nice if that warning message gave the name of the

Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Guy Marcenac wrote: > > I updated today my wheezy system. > In the update there were both a grub and kernel updates. > During install I got these messages > > Setting up grub-pc (1.99-27+deb7u2) ... > /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a part

Re: grub warning when updating

2013-10-20 Thread Guy Marcenac
Le 19/10/2013 19:12, Gary Dale a écrit : On 19/10/13 12:30 PM, Guy Marcenac wrote: Setting up grub-pc (1.99-27+deb7u2) ... /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possibl

grub warning when updating

2013-10-19 Thread Guy Marcenac
Hello, I updated today my wheezy system. In the update there were both a grub and kernel updates. During install I got these messages Setting up grub-pc (1.99-27+deb7u2) ... /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea.. /