[Gllug] Pre GRUB error messages

Fri Oct 29 16:32:46 UTC 2010

On 29 October 2010 17:01, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> On 29/10/10 09:16, gvim wrote:
>> I've just loaded Ubuntu 10.10 dual booting with Windows XP onto an old Acer Travelmate 290 (circa 2005) and
>> GRUB hangs for about 10 seconds. A few device error messages quickly
> flash onto the screen before all is
>> well but I can't read them. Are they likely to be logged anywhere?
> Tried /var/log/boot and /var/log/boot.log
>> but nothing similar in there.
>
> IME this tends to be caused by Grub2 furtling about trying to find a
> non-existent floppy disc drive.
>
> I've yet to discover how to get it to stop doing that.
>

You can install grub with the --no-floppy option
grub-install --help
 for details.
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