Bug#1058638: grub-installer: boot fails: $bootdev empty [BIOS/MBR, Vista, 2 disks]: Installing grub on ''

2023-12-13 Thread Tj
Source: grub-installer Version: 1.194 Followup-For: Bug #1058638 I fetched the proposed patch and applied it to grub-installer inside the installer and can confirm it solved this issue. syslog now shows "grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/vdb' and examining sector 0 of the disk image

Bug#1058638: grub-installer: boot fails: $bootdev empty [BIOS/MBR, Vista, 2 disks]: Installing grub on ''

2023-12-13 Thread Tj
Source: grub-installer Version: 1.194 Followup-For: Bug #1058638 I think this may be due to the same cause as #1035096 and possibly also #1035085

Bug#1058638: grub-installer: boot fails: $bootdev empty [BIOS/MBR, Vista, 2 disks]: Installing grub on ''

2023-12-13 Thread Pascal-liste
Hello, On 13/12/2023 at 20:45, Tj wrote: After a lot of code-chasing it appears the problem is that grub-installer script fails to set its $bootdev variable: grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '' (note the empty quotes) The target system has two 'disks'. The first has Microsoft Windows

Bug#1058638: grub-installer: boot fails: $bootdev empty [BIOS/MBR, Vista, 2 disks]: Installing grub on ''

2023-12-13 Thread Tj
Source: grub-installer Version: 1.194 Severity: important Tags: d-i Whilst helping user "mavaviij" in matrix Debian room I was able to reproduce in a virtual machine a bug that causes the Debian install to fail to boot with a blinking cursor after install. After a lot of code-chasing it appears t