Bug#230502: marked as done (debian-installer wiped out my MBR)
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From: Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@free.fr>
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Subject: debian-installer wiped out my MBR
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Package: debian-installer
Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-31
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I tried yesterday's latest (thx joeyh) debian-installer images. After
circumventing a few (more or less) known bugs, I finally was very
upset to see that... the installation was finished! debian-installer
wiped out my Master Boot Record _without even noticing me_!
I find this totally unacceptable. Is this Windows or what?
I can understand that this is a beta version, that designing the
"right" user interface is full of complex trade-offs, blablabla, but
come on, ANY other user interface before destroying the MBR is better
than none.
Generally speaking, I find the new design of the installer very nice:
I like the idea of being able to go back and forth between "clever"
and "manual" modes. But please, just ask confirmation (just provide
a "back" button) before doing anything "clever", at the very least in
the MBR case.
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From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
To: 230502-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: FWD: Fixed in NMU of grub-installer 0.32
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Not really an nmu.
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:02:02 -0500
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Subject: Fixed in NMU of grub-installer 0.32
tag 230502 + fixed
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:41:54 -0500
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.32
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Description:=20
grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 230502
Changes:=20
grub-installer (0.32) unstable; urgency=3Dlow
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* Joey Hess
- Add support for backing up to the main menu.
- Reword the bootdev question to use less jargon, and to emphasize that
it overwrites the MBR by default.
- Ask the bootdev question at high priority, as lilo does with its
question. This along with the wording clarification should prevent
accidental unavoidable MBR destruction. Closes: #230502
- Remove dead defaultbootdev code.
* Translations
- Bartosz Fenski
- Updated Polish (pl) translation.
- Giuseppe Sacco
- applied patch for normalizing menus and some italian translation (=
it.po)
- h3lios
- Added Albanian translation (sq.po)
- Jordi Mallach
- Update Catalan translation (ca.po).
- Christian Perrier
- Update French translation (fr.po).
- Carlos Z.F. Liu
- update Simplifed Chinese translation (zh_CN.po)
- Miroslav Kure
- Update Czech translation
- Claus Hindsgaul
- Update Danish translation.
- Konstantinos Margaritis
- Update Greek translation.
- Kenshi Muto
- Updated Japanese translation (ja.po)
- Miguel Figueiredo
- Updated Portuguese translation (pt.po)
- Bart Cornelis
- Updated Dutch (nl.po) translation
- Andr?? Lu??s Lopes
- Updated Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation.
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