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Bug#646849: installation-reports: GRUB package install fails during DVD install of testing

October 27th, 2011 - 03:10 pm ET by Joe Thompson | Report spam
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: criticalTags: d-iX-Debbugs-Cc: debian-bugs@orion-com.com

During install from DVD, installing grub-pc on the new system fails.
It is possible to recover from the failure by doing the following:
 1) Continue the install without a bootloader 2) At the last screen,
use the Go Back option 3) Execute a shell 4) chroot /target 5) Edit
/etc/apt/sources.list to uncomment the DVD line in the repo list 6)
apt-get update (may not be necessary) 7) apt-get install grub
(installs several dependencies and kicks off the     GRUB Legacy
upgrade process) 8) At the end of the grub package setup, the initrd
and kernel are properly     detected. 9) exit chroot10) reboot

The system then boots successfully. -- Joe
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#1 Colin Watson
October 28th, 2011 - 04:20 am ET | Report spam
reassign 646849 udev-udeb
forcemerge 646835 646849
thanks

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:02:09PM -0400, Joe Thompson wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Severity: criticalTags: d-iX-Debbugs-Cc:

During install from DVD, installing grub-pc on the new system fails.
It is possible to recover from the failure by doing the following:
 1) Continue the install without a bootloader 2) At the last screen,
use the Go Back option 3) Execute a shell 4) chroot /target 5) Edit
/etc/apt/sources.list to uncomment the DVD line in the repo list 6)
apt-get update (may not be necessary) 7) apt-get install grub
(installs several dependencies and kicks off the     GRUB Legacy
upgrade process) 8) At the end of the grub package setup, the initrd
and kernel are properly     detected. 9) exit chroot10) reboot



The lack of logs here makes it difficult to make sure, but this sounds
just the same as the pair of bugs #646829 and #646835. Merging with the
one that's still open.

(Incidentally, there is no need to specifically install GRUB Legacy, as
GRUB 2 is entirely blameless in this bug; it's simply the first victim.)

Colin Watson []



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