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Bug#982591: grub-pc can't be updated non-interactively on debian/buster64



On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:57:52PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> IMO we cannot know which device name is used  by the users virtualisation environment.
> So, what is the be setting without knowing the device name?
> 
> Or is /dev/sda used in most enviroments?

For VirtualBox sda is a pretty safe bet, for libvirt it'd be either sda
or vda (and I think we could set both in debconf, as that's a
multiselect). AWS has another one, vxda I think? But this explicit bug
is about vagrant (so virtualbox and libvirt) only anyways.

The only thing to consider with this approach: it should only be done
when preparing images, not installing "real" systems. So in the
cloud.d.o context that's safe, but probably not as a generic default in
FAI and other tools.


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