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

[Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org>]

Hi,

On 12/09/14 00:54, Ozi Traveller wrote:
> I've noticed that this happens when I'm installing into a virtualbox vm,
> and there is only single partition.

Thanks, this is useful information for me.  But please could you be more
specific:  was this a default, automatic (preseed) or expert-mode
install?  Of which version (wheezy, jessie daily build?)) and from what
type of install media (ISO image?  mounted as virtual CDROM drive or as
a hard disk?)

Did you get this dialog first:

| Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?
| <Go Back>  <Yes> <No>

or do you only see this:

| Device for boot loader installation:
| [o] Enter device manually
| [ ] /dev/sda (ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001)

and in case of the latter -- was "Enter device manually" the
pre-selected option (if you were to hit Enter), or was /dev/sda
pre-selected?

> Seems like a silly question when
> there is only 1 choice.

There are actually other choices if you were to "Enter device manually"
- you could install GRUB to a partition instead of the MBR.  Or to some
other device that GRUB wasn't able to detect.  We need to provide a way
to do that.

Thanks,
Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org