Bug#607832: Grub fails to write the MBR of the hard disk, if you use a USB flash drive for the installation

[Manuel Hachtkemper <hacman@math.uni-bonn.de>]

Package: debian-installer
Version: 20101127
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze

I've installed a "debian-installer"/squeeze_netboot (using unetbootin) on a USB flash drive.

When you get to the point, where the grub2-part asks if I want to write to the MBR it fails. The problem is, that my USB flash drive is /dev/sda and my internal hard disk is /dev/sdb and grub tries to write to /dev/sda.
Using grub-install on another getty works for me...

Best regards,
Manuel Hachtkemper

PS: If you need any debug-output just tell me.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32+28
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash