Bug#416113: installation-guide-i386: debootstrap pitfalls; install-grub+FC4 disk labels

[Otavio Salvador]

Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> writes:

> On Sunday 25 March 2007 00:44, supaplex wrote:
>> grub-install chokes in /etc/mtab if there is a disk label.
>
> From comments on IRC I understand that this was a debootstrap installation 
> from an existing Fedora Core system, not a D-I installation.
> IMO this falls in the category "weird stuff that can happen during chroot 
> installs".
>
> Anyway, this is not an installation guide issue, but a grub issue which 
> should IMO be fixed there. The installation guide does not pretend to 
> document everything that can happen during a chroot install; it just 
> documents the general procedure.

Hi Frans,

While I agree it's a grub-install error I won't fix it before etch
since it doesn't affect too many users and is very specific.

supaplex, if you can, try use grub2 and check if it happens there too
since we plan to switch to it after etch is released.

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