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Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive



Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> (2013-06-20):
> Package:  grub-installer
> Version:  1.86
> Severity: important
> User:     debian-edu@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: debian-edu
> 
> We discovered this in Debian Edu based on testing using d-i udebs from
> unstable.  See
> <URL: http://jenkins.debian.net/view/edu/job/g-i-installation_debian-edu_jessie_standalone/ >
> for a automatic test of such installation.
> 
> The change introduced in version 1.86 added a new question in Debian
> Installer, causing the installation to hang at the end asking where to
> install grub.  This used to work automatically, but now require people
> to fill in a value, and [enter] do not work.

Not in every case, that's why the question was added in the first place!

I haven't looked whether one can preseed it like other questions. If it
isn't possible, that should be fixed.

(Why you're using unstable udebs for a wheezy-based debian-edu isn't
obvious to me, by the way.)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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