Public bug reported:
I'm trying out installing an oneiric prerelease on a machine that has a
few local disks and is also currently attached to an empty disk array.
Grub-installer has a few problems in this setup:
- The first is that it doesn't work with device names that overflow past a
single character identifier (/dev/sdXX instead of /dev/sdX).
- The other is it doesn't choose the correct device to install grub onto, and
hence the machine doesn't boot after installing without installing grub
manually. It tries /dev/sda, which is somewhere in the array rather than one
of the local drives. I'd prefer to preseed 'd-i grub-installer/bootdev', but
grub-installer doesn't check whether this has been set before deciding to use
/dev/sda.
I've attached a patch that fixes both of these problems (at least for
me), and results in a bootable system post-install.
** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
grub-installer fails on machine with many disks
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