Bug#683890: grub: GRUB on Debian Installer 2012-08-05 AMD64 fails due to syntax error

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Sun Aug 5 08:48:21 UTC 2012


reassign 683890 grub-installer
forcemerge 683867 683890
thanks

Quoting Frederik Schwarzer (schwarzerf at gmail.com):

> The GRUM install part throws an error tahat it could not be installed in
> the MBR. The error console (F4) told me that there was a syntax error in
> /usr/bin/grub-installer at line 45.
> Looking at that file indeed showed a missing "then" in an "if"
> statement. Adding that "then" and just rerunning the GRUB step of the
> installer worked for me.


This bug is not in GRUB but in the grub-installer componennt of D-I.

Reassigning and merging with the existing bug report about this.


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