Bug#1033985: debian-installer: Installer sets grub up without existing Windows boot choice
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20230401
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: budheal508@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I installed the latest weekly build to test a different bug. This machine has Windows 7 in the first partition. At some point I copied the 320GB onto a 2TB, then installed Linux onto the residue. This time I overwrote Devuan Ascii. The install would not complete unless I reinitialized it as ext4.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
In the boot sequence, grub's list no longer included the Windows 7 partition. After completing tests, I used Microsoft's tools to reenable Windows and now have no longer have an option to boot into the Linux partition.
* What was the outcome of this action?
The last time I installed Buster and bullseye, on other computers, the Windows options were still shown at boot. This appear to be a regression of some kind. I have also complained (as a grub bug) that when I install different Debian versions, the (unused) Windows M.2 shows, the latest (M.2 or SATA SSD) shows, but the third doesn't show up - and I would really like to use that one when the testing install fails out. Okay, hunt and peck a little bit and it can happen anyway.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I guess I am wishing for the Installer to enumerate all of the attached volumes and any of the bootable partitions and pack them into a tidy list for grub.
Now, for this install I used a 64GB USB stick with the DLBR image. The Installer duly asked if I wanted to boot from the hard disk or the USB drive next time. Listing the install volume seems a little silly, but not listing all of the options on the hard drive -- senseless.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
*** ignore the environment, it was an 4-core i7 in an old laptop ***
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Reply to: