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Bug#729411: grub-pc: attempts to install to mmcblk0 rather than sda



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (2013-11-13):
> Control: reassign -1 grub-installer

(Please cc maintainers when reassigning.)

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 09:05:08AM -0800, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > Using the following installation media:
> > 6fba6fbf3ecfe38ec7f667f5da658df2  debian-live-7.2-amd64-xfce-desktop.iso
> > 
> > The installation continued largely without problems until it got to
> > the "install grub on mbr" stage.  At this point it failed.  After
> > digging a little, I noticed that it was trying to install grub on
> > mmcblk0 (the SD card) rather than on sda (the internal SSD).  After
> > selecting cancel, I was able to manually specify /dev/sda as the
> > target and the installation completed.
> 
> I strongly suspect that this is a bug in grub-installer, especially
> since things worked once you specified the correct target.

Likely a (slighly ironic) variant of #706112?
  http://bugs.debian.org/706112

in which case that should be better with jessie alpha 1 images, to be
published in a few days if everything goes well.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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