Bug#781551: installation-reports: d-i does not set boot flag on boot partition
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Dear Maintainer,
* I tied to use Jessie-RC2 intaller to install jessie on a rescue usb hd ?
* I put debian-jessie-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso on {cd,sdcard,usbkey} and
boot on it, asking to install on sdb (my usb disk).
* Install was OK except in the case of sdcard) but at boot time, even asking
bios to boot on sdb, it boots on main disk.
After trying chroot [sdb] && grub-install update-grub rebooting and so on I
noticed that the boot flag was not set on sdb1. Setting it with cfdisk allowed
me to boot on the usb disk.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I wished I could install jessie on an usb disk and provided bios configured to
boot on usb disk, the system should boot on the newly jessie install.
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: cd
Image version: debian-jessie-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: EliteBook 6930p from hp
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
and ideas you had during the initial install.>
--
Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other
installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this
report. Please compress large files using gzip.
Once you have filled out this report, mail it to submit@bugs.debian.org.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, armhf, powerpcspe
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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