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Bug#712907: marked as done (grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive)

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regarding grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive
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Package:  grub-installer
Version:  1.86
Severity: important
User:     debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu

We discovered this in Debian Edu based on testing using d-i udebs from
unstable.  See
<URL: http://jenkins.debian.net/view/edu/job/g-i-installation_debian-edu_jessie_standalone/ >
for a automatic test of such installation.

The change introduced in version 1.86 added a new question in Debian
Installer, causing the installation to hang at the end asking where to
install grub.  This used to work automatically, but now require people
to fill in a value, and [enter] do not work.

Please make sure the default value for this question is the same as
grub-installer used earlier, and lower the severity to to one that do
not show up in the normal case.

I'm attaching a screen shot from the installer.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

Attachment: grub-new-question.png
Description: PNG image


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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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