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Bug#591278: marked as done (debian-installer: confusing questions on GRUB installation)

Your message dated Sun, 1 Aug 2010 13:46:24 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#591278: debian-installer: confusing questions on GRUB installation
has caused the Debian Bug report #591278,
regarding debian-installer: confusing questions on GRUB installation
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: minor

I installed squeeze using the netinst iso within VirtualBox. Late in the 
installation process there's some confusion about setting up GRUB. d-i 
asks me whether I want to proceed without installing GRUB. If I choose 
"No", the question plainly pop up again. If I choose "yes", d-i scans 
for other operating systems and, after that, asks me whether GRUB should 
be installed to MBR. From this point on, everything is fine.

This behaviour is rather confusing, I don't understand why it asks me 
whether to proceed without GRUB installation in the first place.

Best regards

Jan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Quoting Jan Heitkötter (usenet-10@heitkoetter.net):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: minor
> 
> I installed squeeze using the netinst iso within VirtualBox. Late in the 
> installation process there's some confusion about setting up GRUB. d-i 
> asks me whether I want to proceed without installing GRUB. If I choose 
> "No", the question plainly pop up again. If I choose "yes", d-i scans 
> for other operating systems and, after that, asks me whether GRUB should 
> be installed to MBR. From this point on, everything is fine.
> 
> This behaviour is rather confusing, I don't understand why it asks me 
> whether to proceed without GRUB installation in the first place.


All this more comes from the GRUB package(s) that are currently being
polished by GRUB maintainers. I suggest closing the bug report as I'm
not even sure that reassigning it to grub2 (or grub-legacy) would be
anything but a hassle for the poor guy currently doing this (Hi
Colin!).

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