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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Ben Hutchings]
> Right.  We don't use the block device names in the configuration of the
> installed system and we shouldn't use them here (not primarily, anyway).
> 
> Under Linux, we should ask udev for the model name (and maybe serial
> number) and show this as well as the device name.  I expect there is
> some similar facility under kFreeBSD but I don't know what it is.

I did a install today using debconf priority medium, and there I am
asked by grub-installer for the "Device for boot loader installation",
and the two options are "Enter device manually" and "/dev/sda
(ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001)".  The selected one is "Enter device
manually".  This make me believe that if we change the selection of
this debconf question, we might solve this issue for a lot of users.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen