Bug#901721: debian-installer: grub installed on root drive even if it won't boot that way

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Control: reopen -1

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 03:46:25PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tag -1 - d-i
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi,
> 
> tom <mantrosheiser@yahoo.com> (2018-06-17):
> > Package: debian-installer
> > Severity: critical
> > Tags: d-i
> > Justification: breaks the whole system
> > 
> > I installed '/' on /dev/sdc. The installer defaulted to also install
> > grub there. I accepted. The system was not bootable. 
> 
> Which Debian version and d-i version did you use? d-i defaults to ???Enter
> manually??? to make sure we no longer present a default choice that could
> be wrong and would be accepted without second thought. It's been the
> case for two Debian releases if memory serves (Debian 8 & 9).
> 

} > The bios setup for boot device priority choice for 
} > 'hard drive' is limited to simply 'hard drive', which I 
} > assume is the first hard drive. 
}  
} the bios is being harmfull by simplification

IMNSHO the actual problem

 
} > I expected the default would create a bootable system.
} > 
} > I booted the install media and installed grub to /dev/sda.
} > The system then booted.
} > 
} > Perhaps there is some scenario where it would be desirable 
} > to put grub on the drive with '/' even if it isn't the first drive,
} > but that certainly isn't the most common scenario.
} > 
} > I wish the installed would default to install grub to /dev/sda, regardless
} > of where '/' is.
}  
} That wouldn't happen.

So I closed it.

Now it should be reopened.



Cheers
Geert Stappers