Bug#685886: installation-reports: installing on the second hard disk fails: grub error after reboot
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
[ I'm reporting the problem on behalf of my friend. ]
Tried 6.0.5 CD1 and the current testing snapshot (August 20).
There were two hard drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb), Debian was installed
to the logical partition of the second drive (something like /dev/sdb6),
everything (except swap) was installed to a single partition.
Everything was fine on the installation stage, but after the reboot the
user was greeted with the Grub command line, i.e. boot failed.
Apparently because the Grub was installed to the /dev/sda
unconditionally. After we managed to install (manually, using the rescue
disk) Grub to the MBR of second hard drive (i.e. 'grub-install
/dev/sdb'), boot succeeded.
This is unfortunate. I wonder if we did something wrong or installer
should have some more code for handling multi-disk installations.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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