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Bug#900584: qa.debian.org: Bootlaoder fails to boot at first attempt on selection of OS



Control: reassign -1 debian-installer

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:03:49PM +0530, V SHANKARANANDA wrote:
> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i

Why would you ever file such a bug under qa.debian.org?

It's either some component of debian-installer that is at fault, or grub
itself.

> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Burned the Install CD image sucessfully. Selected the "Install non-graphical"
> option from Grub Menu. System reboots again and again presenting with Grub
> menu.
> Repeated the action twice/thrice to enter installation process. Installation
> completed sucessfully. Installed boot loader on MBR.
> 
> Bootloader fails to boot the OS on selection, instead,  reboot the system.
> Takes more than one attempt to Boot OS. On repeated selection boot is
> successful.
> 
> Problem seems to originates from CD Image.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> On selection of OS title from Grub menu, the system reboots and loads grub
> again.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> On repeated attempt (more than two or more attempts/selection), boot is
> sucessful
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> Expect to boot in first attempt as it would happen in earlier releases.
> 
> Same behaviour is observed in Install CD image.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.4
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 

-- 
regards,
                        Mattia Rizzolo

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