Similar to this bug and the 6 others merged with it, I also have a situation where grub-installer picking (hd0) is not what I want. Here are some details:
I am using d-i preseeding on a system that has both a cciss raid controller and a fiber channel controller (appears as scsi). I specify which disk I want to be partitioned/installed using something like: d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/cciss/c0d0 But when grub enumerate the disks (hd0) ends up being one of the scsi disks and grub tries to install there (and fails in my case since the disk isn't setup). I would like a way to tell grub "please install to the same disk as was partitioned and used for the install". Now of course you might be partitioning and installing to multiple disks, so I guess maybe you want to be able to say "install on whatever disk /boot is on" or something like that. For now the work around for this problem (at least using preseeding) is to hardcode the device grub installs to with something like: d-i grub-installer/bootdev string (hd4) or d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/cciss/c0d0 but that is problematic since if you are trying to use the same preseed on machines of differing hardware, differing amounts of controllers/disks will cause those names to change. Better for d-i to record what did it used and then use that. I don't know what the patch to do this would look like but I expect that the interface to use it would look something like: d-i grub-installer/bootdev string bootdisk d-i grub-installer/bootdev string rootdisk or if you didn't want to overload that existing variable, invent a new one. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
