Bug#911242: grub-legacy - Fails to install on disk (Bug #911242)

[Colin Watson]

Control: severity 898553 grave
Control: merge 898553 911242

Bastian Blank wrote:
> grub-legacy fails to install a proper bootloader on disk.  Given the not
> longer existing usefulness of this package, I intend to request removal
> in a short time.

d-i still uses it in some cases, and finishing off the work of removing
that and making sure that grub2 works out of the box in the relevant
cases is likely to take a while.  We need to keep grub-legacy around at
least until somebody has got round to doing that work.

Apologies for having missed the earlier bug on this subject: I wasn't
subscribed to the package in the PTS, which was entirely my fault.  I've
fixed that and should notice bugs in a more timely fashion now.

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 03:39:12PM +0200, Bernhard Übelacker wrote:
> might this crash be the same as reported in #898553 ?

Indeed.  Merging.  Thanks for your patch there, which looks as
reasonable as it's likely to get - I'm having a few unrelated
difficulties getting a test environment completely working, but I'll
upload as soon as I've sorted that out.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]