On 15/09/14 08:36, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Samuel Thibault] >> I have attached the syslog, "interestingly": >> >> Aug 26 00:10:17 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '' > > Yes, I suspect that is a typo in the script somewhere, failing to set > the default. partman succeed in picking a good default, perhaps > grub-installer can use the same logic?
FWIW I've been looking into this issue already in the past few days. At this point I'd say Petter's patch shouldn't be necessary, because the intent was for the 'list' dialog to have an entry pre-selected (or not show that dialog at all). That only works sometimes (e.g. PXE), but in other cases (including CD-ROM) it appears grub-installer correctly guessed the boot device (based on filesystem containing /boot) and just didn't pre-select it in the dialog. That causes the regression in auto preseed installs. I suggest to actually remove this dialog now: > Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record? > <Go Back> <Yes> <No> because it doesn't make it clear which device we're actually installing to. If our guess was wrong, we want to give the user a chance to correct it. The new dialog can serve the same purpose and is more informative: > Device for boot loader installation: > [ ] Enter device manually > [o] /dev/sda (ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM00001) > <Go Back> How do people feel about me making such a change? I think it will make the real bug (that we sometimes don't pre-select an option in that dialog despite having a good guess) easier for everyone to see. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5416c34a.1000...@pyro.eu.org
