Bug 112681

Summary:	genkernel with grub without a floppy controller problem
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Laurento Frittella (mrfree) <laurento.frittella>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Laurento Frittella (mrfree) 2005-11-16 02:05:17 UTC

genkernel report this:
   * Adding kernel to /boot/grub/grub.conf
   floppy0: no floppy controllers found

I've installed grub with
   grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
and /boot/grub/device.map contains
   (hd0) /dev/sda

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2882253.html#2882253

I've added this (line 31 /usr/bin/genkernel v3.3.6)
   cp /boot/grub/device.map ${TEMP}/grub.map

This is a bad hack ;) probably we want something that check if the file exists
and so on...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-16 06:01:05 UTC

I have multiple machines without any floppy and no such issues.  Also, if you're
going to post a forums link, make sure it actually has more information.  It
really is a waste of time for those of us that do most bug hunting via email to
have to load up a browser, or use a machine with a browser, to load up the
forums, to find it has the exact same information in it.  A simpler method is to
just post all of the information into the bug, as is requested and required.

At any rate, to answer your assumption in your forum post, genkernel does not
modify grub.conf *by default* bu there is a command line option for it. 
Therefore, this would be completely INVALID anyway.