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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

Control: tags -1 + patch

[Petter Reinholdtsen 2014-08-31]
> 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.

I had a look at the code, and found the template and the order of the
devices shown.  I suggest to move the manual option last in the list
of devices like this:

diff --git a/debian/grub-installer.templates b/debian/grub-installer.templates
index e439ad0..66043dc 100644
--- a/debian/grub-installer.templates
+++ b/debian/grub-installer.templates
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ _Description: Device for boot loader installation:
 
 Template: grub-installer/choose_bootdev
 Type: select
-Choices-C: manual, ${DEVICES_LIST}
+Choices-C: ${DEVICES_LIST}, manual
 #flag:translate!:2
-__Choices: Enter device manually, ${DESCRIPTIONS}
+__Choices: ${DESCRIPTIONS}, Enter device manually
 # :sl2:
 _Description: Device for boot loader installation:
  You need to make the newly installed system bootable, by installing

An alternative would be to set the selected value to something more
sensible than manual, for example if there only is one device to
choose from.

Both alternatives should solve the problem for Debian Edu and the
simple case with only disk present, while still keeping it easy to
specify the device manually. :)

OK to commit?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen