Bug#1144078: debian-installer: forky installer fails to install grub on disk with 20 partitions

Chris Ward <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Message-ID <178639096788.3221.7905968336073996009.reportbug__46333.7840091967$1786391137$gmane$org@debian.home>
Source: debian-installer
Version: 20260628
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
I have a disk with about 20 partitions and about 10 varieties of Linux installed.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I attempted to install from the debian-testing netinst ISO (forky) on one of the partitions
   * What was the outcome of this action?
Installation proceeded normally until the installer tried to install grub; this failed and so left my system unbootable
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
Normal installation completion and a bootbale system

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 7.1.7+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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