Bug #712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive
Version: 1.103
Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> (13 Aug 2015):
> 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
Fixed in grub-installer 1.103
Closing this bugreport (a forgotten one from 2015)
Holger
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