[Bug 614399] Re: Kickseed installation from USB and MBR

[Tore Olsen]

I recently ran into this issue (with Ubuntu 18.04): My USB memory stick
is identified as sda, and there is no way to make grub install onto the
hard drive sdb using Ubuntu's kickstart feature. I'm not sure how common
it is that sda is assigned to USB, but I'm pretty certain installing
from USB is far more common than DVD, so I suspect this is really a
blocker for kickstart installs with Ubuntu on modern systems.

There's been no real activity on this bug, so I wonder if there's
anything that can be done to make any progress?

It would be nice if the Ubuntu documentation could acknowledge that the
--boot-drive and --driveorder options aren't supported. I believe I only
discovered this fact after adding DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 to the boot options.

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Title:
  Kickseed installation from USB and MBR

Status in kickseed package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,
  I have been using Kickseed on Ubuntu for a while (Karmic) and that worked pretty well.
  Now, since I switched to Lucid, the installation works but Grub is installed on the wrong disk: the one holding the USB key.
  So, the installed system has no boot (manual grub-install... is needed) and the boot of the USB key is replaced by the boot into the new installation.

  I have seen others with a similar issue (no solution that I could use in Lucid though) on other Linuxes and versions.
  I have also seen that new options or parameters have been added (ignoredisk) but they do not work on Lucid.

  Does any body have a workaround on Lucid for this problem? Is there a
  patch? What did I miss?

  Thanks for the help,
  Stéphane.

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