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...
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