Can't install Grub on SSD (bullseye)

[Xavier Brochard]

Hi

I'm currently testing the new installer for bullseye. I ran into a 
strange problem with grub-install, using "bios" grub, not EFI. Basicaly 
grub files are not copied in /boot/grub if my carget is a SSD.

Could you tell me if this is a known issue before I write a bug report ?

Here's more details :

This was tried several times on an intel server with hard-drive or SSD 
as target. Both using a /boot partition anl LVM for everything else. 
Problem happened only with SSD. I've used Bullseye images with firmware, 
build on the end of march or the beginning of april.


Trying to install grub on SSD failed, saying "no space left" while there 
is tons on free space in the /boot partition and folder /boot/grub is 
empty :

===
Apr  5 21:21:07 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Apr  5 21:21:07 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support 
--no-floppy
Apr  5 21:21:08 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target 
grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"

Apr  5 21:21:08 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
Apr  5 21:21:08 grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot open 
`/boot/grub/i386-pc/sleep_test.mod': No space left on device.
Apr  5 21:21:08 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force 
"/dev/sda"' failed.

===

Booting with rescue option doesn't give the choice to fix Grub install 
if SSD is the target. While testing with hard drive as target, the 
option is there.



If a bug report is needed, tell me what informations you want.

Best regards
Xavier

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Re: instructions for building the non-free debian installation images with the latest gtk network installation for testing the latest espeakup changes

[Nick Gawronski]

Hi, I have uncommented that setting and so if I were interested in 
building the latest CD image with non-free firmware and having this 
image after about 4 seconds automatically launch the talking installer 
what files would I change?  I am also interested in after the installer 
starts having it automatically set debconf priority to low and put me at 
the main menu is this possible? Nick Gawronski


On 4/4/2021 5:11 PM, Daniel Leidert wrote:

Am Sonntag, dem 04.04.2021 um 16:19 -0500 schrieb Nick Gawronski:

[..]

What would I need to do to build using
debian-cd the non-free network installer or include custom packages on
it?

Not sure if that already helps you, but you can use the FORCE_FIRMWARE
environment variable. Check out all the variables in /usr/share/debian-
cd/CONF.sh.

Personally I use simple-cdd to build custom installer CDs.

Regards, Daniel