Version: 1.103
Guido Günther (13 Aug 2015):
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > and sorry for the lag.
> >
> > Sam McLeod (2015-03-07):
> > > Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
> > >
> > > It looks like the
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:54:52PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi,
and sorry for the lag.
Sam McLeod s...@fastmail.com (2015-03-07):
Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this
Hi,
and sorry for the lag.
Sam McLeod s...@fastmail.com (2015-03-07):
Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this
feature: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt
This
Hi Sam,
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 09:02:17AM +1100, Sam McLeod wrote:
Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this
feature: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt
This seems
I can confirm this is still a problem with Jessie.
Debian installer with preseed fails to automatically select the disk to
install grub to (/dev/vda).
This causes the installation to stop and wait for user input when
building on QEMU / KVM:
Sam McLeod s...@fastmail.com (2015-03-07):
I can confirm this is still a problem with Jessie.
Debian installer with preseed fails to automatically select the disk to
install grub to (/dev/vda).
I guess you may want to read the grub-installer part here:
Confirmed working with Jessie -
https://github.com/sammcj/packer-qemu-debian-jessie/commit/12a6dae01f328787dd89621d0bddc34458ac038e
Build log -
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sammcj/packer-qemu-debian-jessie/master/build_output.log
Thanks again Cyril.
Thanks Cyril, I did indeed miss that, that's great - I'll test it today.
It looks like the example pressed hasn't been updated to include this
feature: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/example-preseed.txt
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:55:16 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
To make it easier for teachers and others without knowledge about disk
devices to install Debian Edu, I implemented this workaround for this
issue in debian-edu-config:
For those of you doing automatic installs via preseed on both
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:20:16 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:
d-i partman/early_command string debconf-set grub-installer/choose_bootdev
$(echo /dev/[sv]d[a-z])
Woops, got the wrong debconf item, this one is correct:
d-i partman/early_command string debconf-set grub-installer/bootdev $(echo
Just to be sure everyone reading this bug report understand what I see
as the problem, I present the installation as it is seen from Debian
Edu in Jessie.
URL:
https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian-edu_jessie_standalone/12/
show the grub dialog that show up at the end of the
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2014-09-21):
Just to be sure everyone reading this bug report understand what I see
as the problem, I present the installation as it is seen from Debian
Edu in Jessie.
URL:
https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian-edu_jessie_standalone/12/
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2014-09-21):
URL:
https://jenkins.debian.net/job/g-i-installation_debian-edu_jessie_standalone/12/artifact/results/snapshot_004900.png
This is very bad from a usability point of view, as normal people are
not expected to know device paths.
I
[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
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
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-15):
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
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:39:24PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-10):
3. for a user who blindly hits enter, they get our best guess to the
correct device (instead of a bare now enter a device path prompt)
Please stop pretending it's a best
On 11/09/14 18:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Does the installer no longer know to what device it installed the
Debian system? Perhaps where it put /boot? Might *that* be
a good place to put the bootloader?
I've been trying to document the existing processes here:
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-11):
On 11/09/14 18:23, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Does the installer no longer know to what device it installed the
Debian system? Perhaps where it put /boot? Might *that* be
a good place to put the bootloader?
I've been trying to document
On 11/09/14 22:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
I've been trying to document the existing processes here:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Bugs/GrubInstaller
This page is missing cases involving firmware on a USB stick, so
no, even installation from CD/DVD/PXE can fail the same way.
OK,
Hope you guys don't mind me adding my comment here??
I've noticed that this happens when I'm installing into a virtualbox vm,
and there is only single partition. Seems like a silly question when there
is only 1 choice.
regards
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Steven Chamberlain
Hi,
On 12/09/14 00:54, Ozi Traveller wrote:
I've noticed that this happens when I'm installing into a virtualbox vm,
and there is only single partition.
Thanks, this is useful information for me. But please could you be more
specific: was this a default, automatic (preseed) or expert-mode
Hi
Sorry for the lack of information.
auto preseed, not expert:
https://github.com/ozitraveller/star-live-build/blob/master/xfce-64/config/includes.installer/preseed.cfg
version: jessie
install media: iso image
mounted as virtual CDROM : yes
Yes that is the dialog I got, only not QEMU.
Yes I
Control: tags -1 + patch
[Petter Reinholdtsen 2014-08-31]
I did a install today using debconf priority medium, and there I am
asked by grub-installer for the Device for boot loader
installation, and the two options are Enter device manually and
/dev/sda (ata-QEMU_HARDDISK_QM1). The
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2014-09-10):
Control: tags -1 + patch
[Petter Reinholdtsen 2014-08-31]
I did a install today using debconf priority medium, and there I am
asked by grub-installer for the Device for boot loader
installation, and the two options are Enter device
On 10/09/14 19:45, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
I had a look at the code, and found the template and the order of the
devices shown. I suggest to move the manual option last in the list
of devices like this:
I think it would meet all the criteria of a good solution:
1. old preseed files will
Processing control commands:
tags -1 + patch
Bug #712907 [grub-installer] grub-installer: No longer installs automatically
on a normal machine with one hard drive
Added tag(s) patch.
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[Cyril Brulebois]
That also means people being too “Enter happy” might overwrite their
installation medium.
Really? When I install using a USB memory stick, the internal hard
drive is the second entry and the USB stick is the third entry, making
me believe the change will ensure the internal
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-10):
On 10/09/14 19:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
That also means people being too “Enter happy” might overwrite their
installation medium.
OTOH if our best guess was correct (e.g. most installs from a real
CD/DVD? PXE installs?), an
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-10):
3. for a user who blindly hits enter, they get our best guess to the
correct device (instead of a bare now enter a device path prompt)
Please stop pretending it's a best guess. IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, and
it has been known for *years*.
But I
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2014-09-10):
[Cyril Brulebois]
That also means people being too “Enter happy” might overwrite their
installation medium.
Really? When I install using a USB memory stick, the internal hard
drive is the second entry and the USB stick is the third entry,
On 10/09/14 19:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
That also means people being too “Enter happy” might overwrite their
installation medium.
OTOH if our best guess was correct (e.g. most installs from a real
CD/DVD? PXE installs?), an enter-happy person may not be happy at all,
because they get to a
On 10/09/14 20:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Slightly tired of repeating myself.
Perhaps could we use some Wiki page with a table of:
* type of install media used
* type of target drive
* install type (manual, preseed, Debian Edu)
* description of hardware
* the result (what was the first drive,
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-09-10):
On 10/09/14 20:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Slightly tired of repeating myself.
Perhaps could we use some Wiki page with a table of:
* type of install media used
* type of target drive
* install type (manual, preseed, Debian Edu)
*
On 10/09/14 21:47, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
To be franck I don't understand what you're trying to achieve…
OK, let me dig up some more information and I'll come back to this in a
few days.
Regards,
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[Ben Hutchings]
Right. We don't use the block device names in the configuration of the
installed system and we shouldn't use them here (not primarily, anyway).
Under Linux, we should ask udev for the model name (and maybe serial
number) and show this as well as the device name. I expect
tags 712907 + help
thanks
Hi,
On 20/06/13 18:56, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
The change introduced in version 1.86 added a new question in Debian
Installer, causing the installation to hang at the end asking where to
install grub.
This dialog is really not accessible to a normal person.
In
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
tags 712907 + help
Bug #712907 [grub-installer] grub-installer: No longer installs automatically
on a normal machine with one hard drive
Added tag(s) help.
thanks
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On 30/08/14 21:00, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
I doubt users will remember exactly which partition was formatted and
mounted as what, especially if they let the auto-partitioner decide that
for them. If you choose to 'Go Back' at this point, it doesn't seem
possible to even get back into the
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-30):
On 30/08/14 21:00, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
I doubt users will remember exactly which partition was formatted and
mounted as what, especially if they let the auto-partitioner decide that
for them. If you choose to 'Go Back' at this
On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 21:00 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
tags 712907 + help
thanks
Hi,
On 20/06/13 18:56, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
The change introduced in version 1.86 added a new question in Debian
Installer, causing the installation to hang at the end asking where to
install
On 30/08/14 21:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
That's what you should see the first time. Maybe you hit 'Enter' one
time too many and entered the 'Enter device manually' menu?
Oh I see, that's right. This dialog only appears if you've blindly hit
'Enter' at the first grub-install dialog ('Enter
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (2014-08-31):
On 30/08/14 21:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
That's what you should see the first time. Maybe you hit 'Enter' one
time too many and entered the 'Enter device manually' menu?
Oh I see, that's right. This dialog only appears if you've blindly
Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 20 Mar 2014 14:51:32 +0100, a écrit :
Salvatore Bonaccorso car...@debian.org (2014-03-20):
It looks bootdev could be preseeded[1], at least for a test for a VM
preseed the following worked for me:
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/vda
[1]
Hi KiBi, hi Petter,
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:26:49PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2013-06-20):
Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.86
Severity: important
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu
We discovered this in
Salvatore Bonaccorso car...@debian.org (2014-03-20):
It looks bootdev could be preseeded[1], at least for a test for a VM
preseed the following worked for me:
d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/vda
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/666974
But having string (hd0) does not seem to work
Hi
I have a very similar problem, adding it here as it seems to have the same
origin. As mentioned by Petter, 1.86 introduced the follwoing change:
grub-installer (1.86) unstable; urgency=low
[ Vincent McIntyre ]
* Support menu selection of GRUB boot disk. Closes: #706112
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Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2013-06-20):
Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.86
Severity: important
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu
We discovered this in Debian Edu based on testing using d-i udebs from
unstable. See
URL:
[Cyril Brulebois]
Not in every case, that's why the question was added in the first
place!
How often was the old default wrong? If it was rare, perhaps the
question should only show up in expert installs (ie use priority low)?
(Why you're using unstable udebs for a wheezy-based debian-edu
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com (2013-10-17):
[Cyril Brulebois]
Not in every case, that's why the question was added in the first
place!
How often was the old default wrong? If it was rare, perhaps the
question should only show up in expert installs (ie use priority low)?
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