I *think* I've figured it out. I had some grub packages manually specified
in my config/package-lists, and I just needed to let the installer handle
it itself. It appears to go through the installer correctly now, although I
am being prompted for some things that I expected to have auto-populated
f
I'm getting closer to it, I've trimmed the following (what I think is
relevant) from the log:
Sep 16 16:43:17 main-menu[2810]: INFO: Menu item 'grub-installer' selected
Sep 16 16:43:17 grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/generic
...
Sep 16 16:43:17 in-target: grub-common is already the newes
Continuing my attempts using my slimmed-down example (
https://github.com/mmguero/deblive_blank) I am now getting the BIOS
installer to use my preseed correctly, and get through the "copying data to
disk" phase. Now debian-installer keeps exiting and being restarted. The
error I see is:
main-menu:
Continuing my debugging (and posting here in case the record of this helps
someone in the future).
The installer under BIOS is now trying to execute my preseed, by adding
this to my build script prior to running:
mkdir -p ./config/includes.installer
cp -v ./config/includes.binary/install/* ./
