probably no grub-install in FAI installation

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Dec 9 12:43:18 CET 2010


>>>>> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:47:45 +0100, Henning Fehrmann <henning.fehrmann at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > we are currently testing a FAI-Squeeze installation and struggled with the 
    > grub2 installation. We are using the FAI-server v 3.4.5 and install the current 
    > Squeeze grub-ps package v 1.98+20100804-8.
    > After the installation the system does not boot from the hard drive. It turned
    > out that '/usr/sbin/grub-install' never has being called in the postinst script 
    > of the grub-pc package. 
The postinst does not need to call grub-install. If your client
belongs to the class GRUB_PC, the script GRUB_PC/10-setup will be
called and this script calls grub-install. I just tested it here
again, and it works like a charm. 
-- 
regards Thomas


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