Bug#589823: debian-installer (squeeze alpha): Writes grub on usb-stic with installer
Package: debian-installer
Severity: serious
Hi,
installing grub2 in the squeeze installer resulted in
- breaking my USB stick installer by writing grub into its MBR
- writing the wrong harddrive id into the grub.cfg (hd1 instead of 2)
so for the normal user the freshly installed system would be unbootable.
Also the installer stick needs to be recreated now.
As this is probably a common way to install Debian and the result is a
pretty bad user experience, I'm filing the bug as serious.
(everything else worked completely painfree, thanks!)
Cheers,
Bernd
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-think (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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