Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-27 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 15:09:14 +0100, Andrea Borghi wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2013, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: I do like the idea that the grub install in most cases will be to the device with the root partition for the installation just made BUT that would not work with my RAIDed

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org (27/01/2013): On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 15:09:14 +0100, Andrea Borghi wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2013, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: I do like the idea that the grub install in most cases will be to the device with the root partition for the installation

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-25 Thread Andrea Borghi
On Thursday 24 January 2013, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: I do like the idea that the grub install in most cases will be to the device with the root partition for the installation just made BUT that would not work with my RAIDed machines. yes, this was just the second part of my idea. I was

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
On 23/01/13 21:42, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi, It looks like some code is already there to avoid cdrom or USB install media being used as the grub-install target. In the grub-installer script: 552 # [...] if /cdrom seems 553 # to be a USB stick then (hd0) may not be safe. If we hit

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Thanks Paul, On 24/01/13 12:22, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: # mount | grep cdrom Ah of course, this is netboot... # list-devices cd /dev/sr0 # list-devices maybe-usb-floppy # list-devices usb-partition /dev/sda4 What exactly is sda4; is that where the mini.iso files are? Is it formatted

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Steven Chamberlain
[quoting from #698707] On 24/01/13 12:42, Andrea Borghi wrote: 2. set the default drive for grub installation to the drive that contains the root partition selected during disk partitioning. That's a good thing to ask, it seems like a more obvious place to start. Currently (hd0) is preferred

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Bryan Roberts
On 24/01/13 12:56, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Thanks Paul, On 24/01/13 12:22, Paul Bryan Roberts wrote: # mount | grep cdrom Ah of course, this is netboot... # list-devices cd /dev/sr0 # list-devices maybe-usb-floppy # list-devices usb-partition /dev/sda4 What exactly is sda4; is that

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, It looks like some code is already there to avoid cdrom or USB install media being used as the grub-install target. In the grub-installer script: 552 # [...] if /cdrom seems 553 # to be a USB stick then (hd0) may not be safe. If we hit either of those 554 # checks, then try the disk

Bug#696877: installation-reports: Wheezy DI-b4-amd64-netboot-mini.iso from an usb stick fails trying to install grub

2013-01-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Robert, Robert Marsellés Fontanet robert.carde...@gmail.com (28/12/2012): * What led up to the situation? Every time I asked the installer to install grub at the very end of the installation process. I used the default mode. I only customized the hard drive partition