Dick - just this morning I went to update packages on an AWS instance and
it failed because the disk was not /dev/sda.  I had to logon to the box,
issue apt update -y, then a dialog popped up asking me for the drive to
install grub-pc on.


On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:31 AM Kathy Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's great - thank you!
>
> Now, does anyone know how I can do an "update grub-pc" with that
> particular hard drive so it doesn't prompt me for the disk drive?
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:15 AM Dick Visser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What exactly do you mean by 'update packages'?
>> We're using Debian EC2 instances and never had to bother with manually
>> selecting disks/devices...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 12:14, Kathy L <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We are trying to update packages on several AWS servers via ansible. In
>>> the beginning of our playbook we have the environment to noninteractive
>>> like this:
>>>     environment:
>>>        DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
>>>
>>> When I run an update (or try to install anything, I get the error
>>> stating "/dev/sda does not exist". That is because for example, when
>>> provisioning AWS nodes, the disk type is not /dev/sda but something else.
>>>
>>> My question is how do i run update grub-pc with a specific disk?  I'm
>>> assuming I would get the disk "name" from ansible_facts (devices), grab the
>>> first disk, then run something similar to  "apt install grub-pc /dev/nvme01"
>>>
>>> Is there a way to do this?  I tried the line above and it failed and I'm
>>> out of ideas.
>>>
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