Bug#867804: cdrom: Stretch netinst CD installs grub config file incorrectly

[Steve McIntyre]

Control: reassign -1 grub-common

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:27:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>>The Debian partition is sda7, formatted ext4. I created it in partman
>>during the installation. As far as I can see from today's explorations,
>>installation has been fine except for this one glitch, which was more of
>>an irritation than a serious problem. I've attached the installation
>>syslog to this email.
>
>Thanks, I'm looking at it now to see if there's anything obvious.

OK, I can see you have lots of OSes installed on your computer. I can
see os-prober parsing lilo config files from other installations. :-)

What I *don't* see is any indication of any failures, though. Instead,
grub-install claims to have succeeded:

Jul  8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Jul  8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Jul  8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"
Jul  8 07:42:54 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform.
Jul  8 07:43:05 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
Jul  8 07:43:05 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully

I'm wondering if *maybe* something has been confused by those lilo
setups, but I'll admit that I'm not sure what's happening there.

>>I normally prefer lilo to grub, so I reinstalled lilo from one of my
>>other Linuxen, but I could do a grub-install in Debian to test out the
>>grub.cfg file, which I've now renamed. Would you like me to do that?
>
>I'll get back to you...

Yes please, that might be very helpful. Run as

 "grub-install -v /dev/sda"

and capture the output please?

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