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

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi KiBi, hi Petter,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:26:49PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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.

It looks bootdev could be preseeded[1], at least for a test for a VM
preseed the following worked for me:

d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/vda

 [1] https://bugs.debian.org/666974

But having string (hd0) does not seem to work here (have not checked
why), which would be nicer to have more generalised preseed files as
previous possible (for say when having machines having a /dev/vda or a
/dev/sda ...).

Petter, does this also work for you?

Regards,
Salvatore