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

Your message dated Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:03:15 +0000
with message-id <E1PeBP9-0001cX-Of@franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#605562: fixed in grub-installer 1.59
has caused the Debian Bug report #605562,
regarding overwrites MBR of installation medium
to be marked as done.

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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: 1.59

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_1.59.dsc
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.59.dsc
grub-installer_1.59.tar.gz
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.59.tar.gz
grub-installer_1.59_amd64.udeb
  to main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.59_amd64.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 605562@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br> (supplier of updated grub-installer package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:49:51 -0200
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.59
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
Description: 
 grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 605562
Changes: 
 grub-installer (1.59) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Julien Cristau ]
   * Amend changes from 1.57: call device_to_disk on the device mounted as
     cdrom.  Booting from a disk or usb device, that may end up being
     /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda, defeating the "we shouldn't install GRUB to
     the installation media" test.  In addition, avoid installing GRUB to the
     device mounted on /hd-media.  Closes: #605562.
 .
   [ Updated translations ]
   * Northern Sami (se.po) by Børre Gaup
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