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Bug#867804: cdrom: Stretch netinst CD installs grub config file incorrectly



On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 07:18:45PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote:
>On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 18:32:31 +0100
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Hazel,
>> 
>> This report surprises me, as I tested that exact image a number of
>> times in a number of different scenarios and it worked fine for me.
>> 
>> Can you tell us more about your setup, please? How do you use the ISO?
>> On a USB stick, or on a CD/DVD? If on USB, how exactly did you write
>> the USB stick?
>> 
>> What partition and filesystem setup did you use?
>> 
>> Finally, there should be log files in /var/log/installer on your new
>> system. Could you share those with us as well please?
>> 
>
>I was using a CD but in an external drive plugged into a usb socket, as
>my internal CD drive has just packed up. It's rather an old computer! 

ACK. :-)

>The Debian partition is sda7, formatted ext4. I created it in partman
>during the installation. As far as I can see from today's explorations,
>installation has been fine except for this one glitch, which was more of
>an irritation than a serious problem. I've attached the installation
>syslog to this email.

Thanks, I'm looking at it now to see if there's anything obvious.

>I normally prefer lilo to grub, so I reinstalled lilo from one of my
>other Linuxen, but I could do a grub-install in Debian to test out the
>grub.cfg file, which I've now renamed. Would you like me to do that?

I'll get back to you...

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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