Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 04/09/2018 à 20:21, Dominik George a écrit :
> > *cough*
> > You should get some information about how GRUB is installed and works.
> > GRUB comes in two main parts :
> > - the core image in various locations (+ boot image in some boot sector
> > for GRUB BIOS)
> > - the /boot/grub directory
>
> Yep. I basically said that (in paragraphs you removed from the quote :)).

AFAICS you did not write anything about /boot/grub.

> Can you explain why this fails on installation, where /boot/grub can be written?

grub-install must hardcode the location of /boot/grub into the core 
image. I guess it sees that /boot/grub is encrypted but encryption is 
not enabled for GRUB.