Package: debian-installer Severity: grave During installation of debian squezee using USB flash drive (hd-media) grub-installer has overwritten its MBR (obviously, it has /dev/sda device associated with it).
I'm aware that device enumeration issues were reported in #517563 and #516280 and are present in errata for lenny release RC2, but I believe that installer should not overwrite installation medium under any circumstances. The problem seems to be located in grub-installer script[1]. When grub-installer/only_debian is set to true the bootdev is set unconditionally to '(hd0)'. Installer should make sure that this device is not installation medium by any chance. I've set severity to grave because of data loss (MBR), but the case is obviously not so common so feel free to reduce it. [1] packages/arch/i386/grub-installer/grub-installer -- Piotr Lewandowski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
