Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> and sorry for the lag.
>
> Sam McLeod <smj@fastmail.com> (2015-03-07):
> > Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
> >
> > It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this
> > feature: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt
>
> This seems to be fixed by:
>
> 69619 sthibault # Due notably to potential USB sticks, the location of the MBR can not be
> 69619 sthibault # determined safely in general, so this needs to be specified:
> 69619 sthibault #d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sda
> 69619 sthibault # To install to the first device (assuming it is not a USB stick):
> 69619 sthibault #d-i grub-installer/bootdev string default
Just wanted to confirm that adding:
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string default
to the preseed.cfg file Petter mentioned in the very beginning of this
thread[1] makes the Jessie install succeed without prompts for me in a
kvm virt-install installation so it indeed looks fixed.
Cheers,
-- Guido
>
> (svn blame en/appendix/preseed.xml in the manual; confirmed by looking
> at the website now.)
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712907#10
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