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[[solving-absent-floppy]]
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= Dealing with the "Absent Floppy Disk" Error
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It has been reported by some users that *GRUB2* may fail to install on a partition's boot sector if the computer's floppy controller is activated in BIOS without an actual floppy disk
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drive being present. Such situations resulted in an _Absent Floppy Disk_ error.
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To workaround this issue, go into the rescue mode and follow the procedure in xref:installing-grub-2-on-a-bios-system[Installing GRUB2 on a BIOS system] *GRUB2*, but use the `--no-floppy` option with the `grub2-install` command.
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grub2-install <target device> --no-floppy
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