Bug#666992: grub-pc: installation into partition broken, postinst script does not detect MBR installation

2012-04-03 Thread Norbert Preining
Package: grub-pc Version: 1.99-20 Severity: important Dear maintainers of grub2 I don't know if it was always like that, but the last update of grub2 failed in the postinst script, because it tried to install into /dev/sda3 which was found via grub-probe --target=device /boot

Bug#666992: grub-pc: installation into partition broken, postinst script does not detect MBR installation

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 04:40:26PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: I don't know if it was always like that, but the last update of grub2 failed in the postinst script, because it tried to install into /dev/sda3 which was found via grub-probe --target=device /boot Yes, all my linux

Bug#666992: grub-pc: installation into partition broken, postinst script does not detect MBR installation

2012-04-03 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Colin, thanks for the prompt answer! On Di, 03 Apr 2012, Colin Watson wrote: The real error may be obtained using 'grub-install --force /dev/sda3', and I strongly suspect that it is along the lines of error: non-sector-aligned data is found in the core file. See: Indeed, exactely this

Bug#666992: grub-pc: installation into partition broken, postinst script does not detect MBR installation

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:31:23PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Di, 03 Apr 2012, Colin Watson wrote: If you don't want to install it to /dev/sda3, then you should run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc' and select only /dev/sda. At the moment this H, debconf is *no* registry