On Sun 25 Nov 2012 at 19:01:24 +0100, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > On 25-11-12 18:46, Brian Potkin wrote: > >On Sun 25 Nov 2012 at 17:47:07 +0100, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > > > >When you relate ". . . the installer tries to install to /dev/sda, . ." > >do you mean it tried and failed or it tried and succeeded? > > Tried and failed. (fortunately). During installation, /dev/sda is my > USB stick used to boot the installer, /dev/sdb is my first SSD and > /dev/sdc my second. After installation, I expect /dev/sda and > /dev/sdb to be my first and second SSD's.
It would be highly unfortunate if you had wanted GRUB to be on /dev/sda. But I could not resist checking whether you had hit #655532. Not a high profile bug, as I imagine the number of people using the mini.iso to install to the USB device which holds the ISO to be low. But it's a nice trick if you can pull it off. > >GRUB tells you: > > > > If all of your operating systems are listed above, then it > > should be safe to install the boot loader to the master > > boot record of your first hard drive. > > > >In fact, GRUB will always install to /dev/sda, which may or may not be > >the MBR of your first hard drive. I do not know why this screen cannot > >say GRUB will go in the MBR of /dev/sda. > > > >Also, how could GRUB guess you really wanted it in the MBR of /dev/sdX? > >I think this is why you are given the opportunity to decline its offer. > > Well, maybe because it is not that unusual to boot off an USB stick > in order to install the OS? More and more laptops come without > optical drives these days, and an installer should be able to cope > with that... It is the combination of USB stick and netboot mini.iso which gave rise to your confusion. > Yeah, there is a manual option to override, but GRUB should be > smarter than that, and attempt to install to the first drive on > which software was installed to, and not just the alphabetically > first drive. It would be nice to have this, but I'm not well up with the intricacies of GRUB and grub-installer to comment further. Something based on UUIDs, perhaps? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121125191033.GO13112@desktop
