François POLASTRON wrote: > I found a big bug in debian-Installer on a "BIOS Legacy" computer > When trying to force grub installation in other device than primary disk, in > graphical mode the menu lets the user choose the device: > /dev/sda > /dev/sdb > ... > But when we choose one of a device debian-Installer don't install GRUB WITHOUT > ERROR MESSAGE. > > In fact we must enter the device with the keyboard taping "/dev/sda"... to > contourn the bug. Good morning! Just popping in to say that I've run into this exact problem on Debian 12 (Bookworm) as well. I'm installing onto a system with two drives in a raid1 config, so the installer presents a dialog with these choices for installing GRUB: - Enter device manually - /dev/sda (ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VBcb2c038a-37db3d41) - /dev/sdb (ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VB9084690a-b32386db) If choose "Enter device manually", and type in "/dev/sda", I get two statuses shown on the next progress bar: 1. running "grub-install /dev/sda" 2. running "update-grub" If I instead pick the dropdown entry for "/dev/sda", the installer skips the "grub-install" step and goes right to "update-grub," which leaves the freshly-installed OS in an unbootable state. Interestingly, if I *manually* type in /dev/sda (which installs GRUB properly) and then go back and re-install GRUB using the dropdown entry, from that point forward the dropdown selection works and I get the "grub-install" step properly. On a system which didn't get the grub-install step (so is unbootable), I can at least boot into recovery mode and reinstall GRUB from there, which requires just typing in /dev/sda and fixes things up. I'm attaching the contents of /var/log from the installer after choosing the menu item version (which skips grub-install), though I don't see anything too obviously useful in there myself. Let me know if I can provide any more info. Cheers, CJ
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