Re: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 681227 grub-installer
quit

Hi,

Matthew Vernon wrote:

> grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb  w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']'
> grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
> grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sdb"
> grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
> grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
> grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
> grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --force "w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']"
> grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot stat `w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']'.
> grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --no-floppy --force "w33sxs34rfvbg789iokm·']"' failed.
>
> that string w33 seems to come from no-where - it's not anywhere else
> in syslog, nor is it the label or UUID of any device.
[...]
> DISTRIB_RELEASE="7.0 (wheezy) - installer build 20120508"

Sorry for the slow response.  Reassigning to grub-installer.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan