Ubuntu
grub-installer package

d-i cannot find grub on cdrom when preseeding

Bug #105978 reported by Michael Weichert on 2007-04-12

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

If preseeding feisty with NO internet connection, d-i fails to install grub:

"The grub package failed to install into /target/. Installing GRUB as a boot loader is a required step. The install problem might however be unrelated to GRUB, so continuing with the installation may be possible. GRUB installation failed."

tty4:

apt-install: Reading package lists...
apt-install: Building dependency tree..
apt-install:
apt-install: Reading state information...
apt-install: Package grub is not available, but is referred to by another package.
apt-install: This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source
apt-install: E: Package grub has no installation candidate
grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub' failed

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Michael Weichert (mweichert-furniture) wrote on 2007-04-12:

Preseed configuration file used. Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Michael Weichert (mweichert-furniture) wrote on 2007-04-12:

Workaround:

chroot /target /bin/bash
nano /etc/apt/sources.lst (comment out all sources)
apt-cdrom add
apt-get update
exit
grub-installer

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2008-10-06:

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 beta? (I can't seem to reproduce it, so any additional hints would be helpful.)

Changed in grub-installer:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2008-12-17:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.