Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (27/01/2013): > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 15:09:14 +0100, Andrea Borghi wrote: > > > On Thursday 24 January 2013, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: > > > I do like the idea that the grub install in most cases will be to the > > > device with the root partition for the installation just made BUT that > > > would not work with my RAIDed machines. > > > > yes, this was just the second part of my idea. > > > > I was just dreaming about a *menu* of partitions to install grub to > > (just to overcome the present problem) and set the *default* selection > > on that menu on the /boot device or / device of the system just > > installed, because for my experience this is the majority of the use > > cases, so letting the installer propose a sane default would be > > desiderable. > > > Agreed, I think we need to get to something like that. Thanks everyone for the time spent on investigating the issue, but as you have discovered, there's more or less no way to know where syslinux was booted from in the USB case (at least some greps didn't reveal the wanted info), so being quite generic and trying to present all sensible devices/partitions, possibly with a nice default looks like the way to go. For the record, that's something I'd like to get for rc2; some wording for a rc1 errata would be nice (please note that's been a problem for all wheezy pre-releases, and probably for all squeeze ones too). Not sure we'll fix that for squeeze, will see how the patch looks like when the work is done… Mraw, KiBi.
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