Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-12-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Control: forwarded 1035096 https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/grub-installer/-/merge_requests/17 Hello, On 27/05/2023 at 17:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Thanks for testing Pascal's patches. Let's see if we can get that included early in the Trixie release cycle, before possibly thinking

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 27/05/2023 at 17:08, Peter Ehlert wrote: I suppose this use case is rather rare I do not know how rare your use case is, but I can tell this bug has been around for several Debian releases. I have observed it several times, and I have seen several other people reporting it over time.

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Peter, Peter Ehlert (2023-05-27): > On 5/27/23 05:51, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Unfortunately I guess it is too late for inclusion in Bookworm's > > initial release. Maybe in the next point release. > > > that is unfortunate. > > pardon me for being so slow to test and respond For the

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/27/23 05:51, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Control: tags -1 patch On 27/05/2023 at 13:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Control: tags -1 patch On 27/05/2023 at 13:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-27 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/17/23 10:14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still willing to test it I can send

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/26/23 06:42, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 26/05/2023 at 15:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/17/23 10:14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: 1. Copy the attached patched grub-installer onto a second USB drive formatted with FAT, ext* or any filesystem type the installer can read. 2. Start the

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 26/05/2023 at 15:29, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/17/23 10:14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: 1. Copy the attached patched grub-installer onto a second USB drive formatted with FAT, ext* or any filesystem type the installer can read. 2. Start the installer (expert install recommended). 3. Between

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-26 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/17/23 10:14, Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still willing to test it I can send

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 17/05/2023 at 16:47, Peter Ehlert wrote: On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: The proposed patch has not been accepted yet so is not applied to RC3. Thanks, I was not aware of that. If you are still willing to test it I can send you instructions. Yes, I would like to

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-17 Thread Peter Ehlert
On May 17, 2023 5:48:14 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: On 17/05/2023 at 14:24, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/7/23 13:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Attached is a minimal patch which uses grub-installer/bootdev only when if was manually set by the user, and not when the bootdev was set by

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
On 17/05/2023 at 14:24, Peter Ehlert wrote: On 5/7/23 13:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Attached is a minimal patch which uses grub-installer/bootdev only when if was manually set by the user, and not when the bootdev was set by select_bootdev. I tested it with the last case. Test and feedback

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-17 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/7/23 13:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Control: retitle -1 GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device I found that grub-installer may generate a wrong bootdev value for grub-pc when state=2 and previous_state!=1. This may happen at least in the following three cases if the user

Bug#1035096: GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device

2023-05-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Control: retitle -1 GRUB not installed or installed to the wrong device I found that grub-installer may generate a wrong bootdev value for grub-pc when state=2 and previous_state!=1. This may happen at least in the following three cases if the user selects the device in the proposed list: -