Control: tag -1 confirmed Hi Gert,
Gert Schulte <g...@trash-mail.com> (24/12/2012): > Dear Maintainer, > > Installing from usb with mini.iso in expert mode and normal user mode. Grub2 > wants to install in /dev/sda, which is the MBR of the install media and > luckily > fails. (Last year it did even overwrite the install media). > There is no option to select any different installation location for grub > which > leads to non-bootable systems for many users. > > I had to chroot into my fresh installation to install grub2. > > Sorry, this did always happen the last months with several mini.iso on several > systems but I did not get to report it. > > Please have the install choose the right MBR (e.g. the HD you installed the > system on) and have an option to choose a different location for expert modus > and for normal user modus if installation fails. > > Thanks I must say I've been trying to reproduce some issues with grub-install vs. MBR lately, and I think there are basically two of them: one with non-sensical strings, which Wouter has been trying to diagnose, and finally worked around: http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub-installer/news/20121216T164729Z.html and the one where the wrong /dev/sdFOO gets chosen. I've just tried the following, instead of using some mini.iso (or any official iso) in a CD-Rom drive: - convert it to a VDI image: VBoxManage convertfromraw dest/netboot/gtk/mini.iso dest/netboot/gtk/mini.vdi - attach the resulting VDI image to SATA port 0 in virtualbox. - use guided partitioning, everything in a single partition, into /dev/sdb (SATA port 1) - enjoy the attempted “grub-install /dev/sda” call. I'll be trying to fix that before rc1. Thanks for the reminder/bug report. Mraw, KiBi.
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