Re: Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive
On 11/09/14 18:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Does the installer no longer know to what device it installed the
> Debian system? Perhaps where it put /boot? Might *that* be
> a good place to put the bootloader?
I've been trying to document the existing processes here:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Bugs/GrubInstaller
In limited circumstances grub-installer will guess "(hd0)" (the first
disk detected by grub-mkdevicemap). When installing from USB this is
often wrong.
There are some circumstances where grub-installer will look at where
/boot resides. I suspect most of the time this is a better guess.
It will always ask for user confirmation. There are different dialogs
shown to the user depending on which detections grub-installer used. It
has become over-complicated.
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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