Bug#425648: 100% reproducible grub-install hang when run in x86_64 qemu

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:27:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-28
> Severity: normal
> Tags: d-i
> 
> To reproduce this hang:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso -hda disk -boot d
> 
> Go through the install process to the grub install stage (I choose the
> partition layout with separate /boot and /home, but I doubt it matters).
> It will hang on 'grub-install (hd0)', apparently forever (I've waited up
> to 4 hours for it IIRC). This is at the point where grub-install says
> "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.".

The probing code has been completely rewritten in grub2.  Is it also affected?

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