GRUB Section in 11.04 Preseed file

[nikhil .]

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:23 -0500, nikhil . wrote:
>* Hi Guys, *>*  *>* In my company we use the Ubuntu alternate ISO to automate our Ubuntu*>* deployments on many hundreds of systems. I'm trying to test Ubuntu*>* 11.04 installs now and have gone past several issues in the preseed*>* file but I'm stuck with an error in GRUB install. *>*  *>* In 11.04 x64 installer, I get a prompt for "Select location for*>* installing GRUB" and then I enter /dev/sda but this does not work. I*>* have tried /dev/sda1, /dev/sda3, /dev/sda5 (all are valid partitions).*>* My section in preseed file is *>*  *>* d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean false*>* d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean false*>* d-i grub-installer/bootdev  string /dev/sda1*>* *>*  What is strange is that the above section works for the 11.04 32-bit*>* installer without a problem. *>*  *>* Has anyone seen this? Please help.*
>>I think you need to specify the partition in a grub format, ie:

>>d-i grub-installer/bootdev  string (hd0)

>>Marc.


Hi Marc,

In previous versions of Ubuntu the grub format (hd0,0) used to workl. In
Ubuntu 11.04 x86, I encountered an error which went away after I changed the
format to /dev/sda. But for x64 the error appears with both formats.

thanks
Nikhil
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