Your message dated Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:38:31 +0200 with message-id <201307171139.02755.holger@layer-acht.org> and subject line dealing with old partman related bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #688869, regarding grub-pc installation into a partition fails to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 688869: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688869 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: grub-pc installation into a partition fails
- From: Herbert Kaminski <herbert.kaminski@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:30:14 +0200
- Message-id: <20120926163014.0b793b26@max>
Package: installation-reports Boot method: netboot Image version: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/i386/daily/netboot/debian-installer/i386/ Date: 2012-09-24 Machine: made from parts Processor: Atlon 64 Memory: 1 GByte Partitions: swap, /boot and /, and spre room for another OS Output of lspci -knn Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: Grunb installer offers to install grub-pc into a partition instead of the disk itself. When I selected this option, installation failed. In the log window (Alt-F4) it said among others: "grub-installer: Attempting to install GRUB to a partitionless disk or to a partition. This is a BAD idea." grub-installer: /usr/setup/grub-setup: warn:" grub-installer: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be" grub-installer: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged" The installer should not offer to install grub-pc into a partition if he later refuses to do it, so the user knows he got to use grub-legacy or lilo if he needs this kind of setup. Everything else worked flawlessly. Thanks! Regards, Herbert
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- Subject: dealing with old partman related bugs
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:38:31 +0200
- Message-id: <201307171139.02755.holger@layer-acht.org>
reassign 693107 partman-auto reassign 670702 partman-auto reassign 615074 lvm2 reassign 676172 partman severity 691046 wishlist retitle 644430 document the need for a bios boot partition when using GPT forcemerge 644430 691046 reassign 691046 release-notes reassign 683747 partman-lvm reassign 671879 partman-base thanks Hi, thank you for submitting installation reports, much appreciated. I read through all the ("partman" related) bugs mentioned here and am closing them now as - they (finally) indicated success and/or - I know from first hand experience that the functionality is working in Wheezy and/or - they only contained very little information and/or - they were (very) old. If I've closed a bug incorrectly please do reply or just file a new one - thats often better, as the bug log will be more clear. cheers, HolgerAttachment: signature.asc
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