Grub confusion

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 07:27:16PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> Running xubuntu 13.04, I have 4 large hard drives on the machine, some
>> of which have been used before as boot drives.
>>
>> The BIOS tries to use the first one that it can access that also
>> contains a bootstrap loader.  I would like to remove the loaders, but
>> maintain the partition table in all drives but one.
>
> This doesn't answer your question directly, but my recommendation on
> BIOS systems is normally to install GRUB to the MBR of all installed
> disks to avoid this problem.  You can do this using "sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc".
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]

YES!

It did not answer the question I asked?  Maybe I was too confused to
ask the right one.  This has the virtues of being simple, intuitive,
and most of all IT WORKED!

The only glitch was that it reported an error on /dev/sdd, saying it
could not install grub there.  I don't see anything too funny in fdisk
(extended partition not aligned with physical sectors), and I don't
know how to find out.  But I'm not sure I care because now the boot is
straightforward and I can simply accept the default.

Thanks, Colin.

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Kevin O'Gorman

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