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Bug#568529: marked as done (overwrites MBR of installation medium)

Your message dated Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:47:05 +0000
with message-id <E1PJTB3-0004KN-NG@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#568529: fixed in grub-installer 1.57
has caused the Debian Bug report #568529,
regarding overwrites MBR of installation medium
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: grave

During installation of debian squezee using USB flash drive (hd-media)
grub-installer has overwritten its MBR (obviously, it has /dev/sda device
associated with it).

I'm aware that device enumeration issues were reported in #517563 and
#516280 and are present in errata for lenny release RC2, but I believe
that installer should not overwrite installation medium under any
circumstances.

The problem seems to be located in grub-installer script[1]. When
grub-installer/only_debian is set to true the bootdev is set
unconditionally to '(hd0)'. Installer should make sure that this device
is not installation medium by any chance.

I've set severity to grave because of data loss (MBR), but the case is
obviously not so common so feel free to reduce it.

[1] packages/arch/i386/grub-installer/grub-installer

-- 
Piotr Lewandowski

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Source: grub-installer
Source-Version: 1.57

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

grub-installer_1.57.dsc
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.57.dsc
grub-installer_1.57.tar.gz
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.57.tar.gz
grub-installer_1.57_i386.udeb
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.57_i386.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 568529@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated grub-installer package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:27:33 +0000
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.57
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 568529
Changes: 
 grub-installer (1.57) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Merge changes from Ubuntu by Evan Dandrea and myself:
     - Set a sensible default boot device, so that we aren't installing GRUB
       to installation media which may be removed later.  The disk containing
       /cdrom is very unlikely to be a sensible default.  If we had to fall
       back to (hd0), then we can't tell exactly which disk that is, but if
       /cdrom seems to be a USB stick then (hd0) may not be safe.  If we hit
       either of those checks, then try the disk containing /boot instead
       (closes: #568529).
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Sinhala (si.po) by Danishka Navin
   * Slovenian (sl.po) by Vanja Cvelbar
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