Hello,
we are currently testing a FAI-Squeeze installation and struggled with the
grub2 installation. We are using the FAI-server v 3.4.5 and install the current
Squeeze grub-ps package v 1.98+20100804-8.
After the installation the system does not boot from the hard drive. It turned
out that '/usr/sbin/grub-install' never has being called in the postinst script
of the grub-pc package.
A quick and dirty work around is a '$ROOTCMD grub-install' in a script or a hook
which is probably not meant to be the preferred way.
We added 'set -x' into the postinst script of the grub-pc package to increase
the verbosity.
The 'db_get grub-pc/install_devices' in line 494 does not set the RET variable
which avoids the next 'for' loop. So a grub-install is not being called.
We are not sure, but probably an interactive debconf configuration is required
at this point.
Has anybody seen a similar symptom? Is there a clean way to solve this problem?
Thank you and cheers,
Henning
You might be able to do it with debconf, but the easy way is to call
grub-install in an FAI script, like it's done in fai-doc's examples
(/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/scripts/GRUB_PC) :
[...]
$ROOTCMD grub-mkdevicemap -n -m /boot/grub/device.map
$ROOTCMD grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
$ROOTCMD grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
[...]
--
Nicolas
