Stop Grub2 seraching CD/DVD Drive for bootable OS's

[Colin Law]

On 21 April 2010 22:41, Faizan Kazi <faizan at faizan-kazi.com> wrote:
> Hi Colin! Sorry for the delayed response!
> No, I didnt mean that... I mean that when Grub2 loads and shows the boot
> options (Linux images.... Windows... etc) it also searches the DVD drive! :(
> or i may be wrong about that...

I don't think grub2 searches anything on boot, it just shows the
options that it found when update-grub was run.  What makes you think
otherwise?

Colin

> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 April 2010 22:04, Faizan Kazi <faizan at faizan-kazi.com> wrote:
>> > Hi guys!
>> > How may I stop Grub2 from searching my cd/dvd drive and removable
>> > drives?
>> > (dont know if it searches removable drives currently, but it'd be good
>> > to
>> > find out how to enable/disable that)
>>
>> Do you mean to stop it when running update-grub?  In which case I
>> don't know, but if you remove the media when you run update-grub that
>> will achieve the same effect.
>>
>> If you mean to stop booting into the CD when you reboot then this is a
>> setting in the BIOS not grub.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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