<div dir="ltr">Wow Tom. That is incredibly useful. <div><br></div><div>I am unable to translate what I'm seeing in the logs into a workable d-i preseed command that will answer the prompt and continue.<div><br></div>
<div>The logs show this when I am stopped with the prompt:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> SET grub-installer/bootdev /dev/sdm</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 value set</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 OK</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO grub-installer/progress/step_bootdev</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 OK</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> INPUT critical grub-installer/bootdev</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> GO</font></div></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div>If I hit enter and the installations continues, it goes on to this:<div>
<font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> SET grub-installer/bootdev /dev/sdm</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 value set</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 OK</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO grub-installer/progress/step_bootdev</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 OK</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> INPUT critical grub-installer/bootdev</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: <-- 0 question will be asked</div><div>Dec 9 07:30:35 debconf: --> GO</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0 ok</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: --> GET grub-installer/bootdev</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0 /dev/sdm</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: --> PROGRESS STEP 1</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0 OK</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: --> SUBST grub-installer/progress/step_install_loader BOOTDEV /dev/sdm</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: Adding [BOOTDEV] -> [/dev/sdm]</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: --> PROGRESS INFO grub-installer/progress/step_install_loader</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0 OK</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdm'</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:37:20 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/sdm"</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:22 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.</div>
<div>Dec 9 07:37:22 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully</div><div>...</div><div><br></div></font>It's not clear to me exactly what the prompt is. Is it this?<font face="courier new, monospace"><div><br>
</div><div>Dec 9 07:37:20 debconf: <-- 0 ok<br></div><div><br></div></font>If that's the case, how do I input an "ok"?</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Tom H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Stephen Wood <<a href="mailto:smwood4@gmail.com">smwood4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Can someone help me preseeding the answer to this prompt when installing<br>
> the grub boot loader to a disk other than /dev/sda?<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> I've tried the following things, but I still get prompted with this question. I'd<br>
> like it to just continue:<br>
><br>
> d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean false<br>
> d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean false<br>
> d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sdm<br>
><br>
> And also<br>
> d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true<br>
> d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true<br>
> d-i grub-installer/bootdev string /dev/sdm<br>
><br>
> And also adding:<br>
> d-i grub-pc/install_devices multiselect /dev/sdm<br>
><br>
> Regardless of what I add I still get the prompt. Note that /dev/sdm is also where<br>
> the OS installation resides.<br>
<br>
</div>The "also" looks like what I use but I haven't done a preseeded<br>
install for a while so maybe something's changed.<br>
<br>
Add "DEBCONF_DEBUG=5" to the kernel cmdline and, when your install<br>
stalls, switch to vt4 to find out which preseed variable is needed.<br>
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