Control: tag -1 confirmed
Hi Gert,
Gert Schulte <gert@trash-mail.com> (24/12/2012):
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Installing from usb with mini.iso in expert mode and normal user mode. Grub2
> wants to install in /dev/sda, which is the MBR of the install media and luckily
> fails. (Last year it did even overwrite the install media).
> There is no option to select any different installation location for grub which
> leads to non-bootable systems for many users.
>
> I had to chroot into my fresh installation to install grub2.
>
> Sorry, this did always happen the last months with several mini.iso on several
> systems but I did not get to report it.
>
> Please have the install choose the right MBR (e.g. the HD you installed the
> system on) and have an option to choose a different location for expert modus
> and for normal user modus if installation fails.
>
> Thanks
I must say I've been trying to reproduce some issues with grub-install
vs. MBR lately, and I think there are basically two of them: one with
non-sensical strings, which Wouter has been trying to diagnose, and
finally worked around:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub-installer/news/20121216T164729Z.html
and the one where the wrong /dev/sdFOO gets chosen.
I've just tried the following, instead of using some mini.iso (or any
official iso) in a CD-Rom drive:
- convert it to a VDI image:
VBoxManage convertfromraw dest/netboot/gtk/mini.iso dest/netboot/gtk/mini.vdi
- attach the resulting VDI image to SATA port 0 in virtualbox.
- use guided partitioning, everything in a single partition, into
/dev/sdb (SATA port 1)
- enjoy the attempted “grub-install /dev/sda” call.
I'll be trying to fix that before rc1.
Thanks for the reminder/bug report.
Mraw,
KiBi.
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