On 19/05/2026 at 10:48, Bergamot wrote:
On bookworm, i386, the installer menu that asks which drive to use for GRUB
installation is misbehaving.
1) Go through the installation as usual.
2) When the installer asks whether you want to install GRUB to your
primary drive, select No.
3) Select the desired disk in the list presented.
4) It will run "grub-install " (without any drive argument),
effectively installing it nowhere. The resulting system is unbootable.
This is a known issue, see bugs #1035096 and #1058638. It was fixed in
grub-installer 1.207 for trixie.
If you do agree to install on your primary drive, it shows the drive list
anyway, even if you only have one drive, even if it only has one partition
This part of the code is rather obscure and I am not sure what "primary
drive" means here.
