Bugs in package grub-installer -- Debian Bug report logs

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (9 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Patch Available (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Minor bugs; Unclassified (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (5 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (18 bugs)

#769107 [i| | ] [grub-installer] debian-installer: grub-installer fails if more than 26 SCSI devices are present
Reported by: Michael Weiser <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:48:07 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: d-i; Filed 10 years and 185 days ago; Modified 4 years and 257 days ago;
#882766 [i| | ] [grub-installer] Proposal: reinstate automated device selection, blacklisting d-i?
Reported by: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 14:39:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 7 years and 169 days ago; Modified 7 years and 168 days ago;
#928911 [i| | ] [grub-installer] grub-efi-amd64: destroys EFI partition despite being told not to
Reported by: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 22:12:01 UTC; Severity: important; Filed 6 years and 2 days ago; Modified 127 days ago;

#265228 [i|☹|=] [grub-installer] grub-installer: should be smart enough to guess that /dev/hdb is hd0 at boot time
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:48:01 UTC; Severity: important; Tags: wontfix; Merged with 420376, 486541; Found in version grub-installer/1.32; Filed 20 years and 278 days ago; Modified 14 years and 124 days ago;

#699434 [n|+|♔] [grub-installer] grub-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid
Reported by: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version 183; Blocking fix for 604033: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm), 610359: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm), 659817: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm), 699430: debian-installer: support for Intel Matrix Raid (RST, imsm); Filed 12 years and 104 days ago; Modified 8 years and 53 days ago;
#814318 [n|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: /etc/default/grub is reported as changed by ucfq with install from console
Reported by: Jonathan Toppins <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i, patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.117+deb8u1; Filed 9 years and 94 days ago; Modified 9 years and 94 days ago;
#898945 [n|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: Installing to a raid 1 set on NVMe devices does not work
Reported by: Hans van den Bogert <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 16:57:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.128; Filed 6 years and 362 days ago; Modified 6 years and 235 days ago;

#545929 [n| | ] [grub-installer] Installation-reports: SunFire X4500: Grub does not cope with large numbers of disks
Reported by: Chris Phillips <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 15 years and 249 days ago; Modified 258 days ago;
#587397 [n| |=] [grub-installer] windows detected by installer, but not listed by grub after reboot
Reported by: Grant Allan <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:39:08 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: d-i; Merged with 603107, 608025, 608219, 609251; Filed 14 years and 322 days ago; Modified 14 years and 77 days ago;
#663059 [n| | ] [grub-installer] GRUB-INSTALL FAILED
Reported by: Erick Grippz <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version grub-installer/1.60+squeeze3; Filed 13 years and 68 days ago; Modified 13 years and 68 days ago;
#666255 [n| | ] [grub-installer] [grub-installer] Does not verify list of other operating systems when multiple targets (HDDs) detected
Reported by: Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version grub-installer/1.70; Filed 13 years and 47 days ago; Modified 13 years and 47 days ago;
#691756 [n| | ] [grub-installer] [installation-reports] Grub didn't detect Windows XP
Reported by: "Rafael J,B" <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:24:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 12 years and 198 days ago; Modified 11 years and 299 days ago;
#755689 [n| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: allow installation to multiple devices
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 12:57:06 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version grub-installer/1.95; Filed 10 years and 297 days ago; Modified 10 years and 297 days ago;
#778617 [n| | ] [grub-installer] grub-install often breaks in UEFI mode
Reported by: Phillip Susi <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version grub-installer/1.110; Filed 10 years and 87 days ago; Modified 8 years and 94 days ago;
#883992 [n| | ] [grub-installer] install to harddrive, ignore connected usb, reboot with preseeded grub
Reported by: "Raymond Burkholder" <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 06:45:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version grub-installer/1.140+deb9u1; Filed 7 years and 155 days ago; Modified 7 years and 155 days ago;
#926913 [n| | ] [grub-installer] [grub-installer] grub-installer doesn't install grub to raid disks automatically
Reported by: Max Mustermann <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:27:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 32 days ago; Modified 6 years and 32 days ago;

#747515 [m|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: Please add a grub-installer/timeout installer option
Reported by: Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 14:33:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.94; Filed 11 years and 6 days ago; Modified 11 years and 6 days ago;

#381847 [m| | ] [grub-installer] Point user to syslog/VT4 if apt-install of grub fails
Reported by: Bjoern Boschman <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 11:18:17 UTC; Severity: minor; Filed 18 years and 283 days ago; Modified 18 years and 283 days ago;
#444026 [m| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: serial console should timeout
Reported by: [email protected]; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:42:01 UTC; Severity: minor; Found in version grub-installer/1.22; Filed 17 years and 234 days ago; Modified 12 years and 37 days ago;

#418099 [w|+| ] [grub-installer] please lower the priority for grub-installer/only_debian
Reported by: Robert Millan <[email protected]>; Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 18 years and 41 days ago; Modified 18 years and 32 days ago;
#477092 [w|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: does not support setting password for grub2
Reported by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:26:31 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.30; Filed 17 years and 26 days ago; Modified 258 days ago;
#777748 [w|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: x32 port
Reported by: Adam Borowski <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: d-i, patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.105; Filed 10 years and 92 days ago; Modified 10 years and 92 days ago;
#789798 [w|+|♙] [grub-installer] grub-installer: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order
Reported by: Ian Campbell <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.124; Fix blocked by 792547: grub2: add option to _not_ install to UEFI boot order; Filed 9 years and 325 days ago; Modified 4 years and 262 days ago;
#798465 [w|+| ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: Please show size as well as the device id when selecting target
Reported by: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Found in version grub-installer/1.126; Filed 9 years and 248 days ago; Modified 9 years and 248 days ago;

#220120 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: should use a "select" question for the boot-record
Reported by: Kai Hendry <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:18:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 21 years and 189 days ago; Modified 16 years and 297 days ago;
#274436 [w| | ] [grub-installer] i386 serial console installation report
Reported by: [email protected] (Geert Stappers); Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:33:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 228 days ago; Modified 20 years and 221 days ago;
#274614 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer should prefill likely partition
Reported by: Jason Wies <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:48:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 227 days ago; Modified 20 years and 227 days ago;
#284930 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub install does not work if /boot/grub is on a separate partition
Reported by: Thomas Hofer <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:33:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 159 days ago; Modified 20 years and 159 days ago;
#290035 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: Should install a menu.lst file with a pseudo-mapping of the chosen keyboard map
Reported by: Christian Perrier <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:48:09 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 20 years and 125 days ago; Modified 20 years and 124 days ago;
#355347 [w| | ] [grub-installer] Should suggest installing an MBR when installing GRUB on a partition
Reported by: Graham <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 03:03:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 19 years and 74 days ago; Modified 15 years and 342 days ago;
#386253 [w| | ] [grub-installer] Eliminate the GRUB question?
Reported by: Adrian von Bidder <[email protected]>; Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 18 years and 253 days ago; Modified 18 years and 252 days ago;
#387514 [w| | ] [grub-installer] [etch-beta3] GRUB password only for editing cmdline
Reported by: Uwe Hermann <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:03:59 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 18 years and 245 days ago; Modified 11 years and 60 days ago;
#419169 [w| | ] [grub-installer] List detected operating systems in a bullet form instead of comma separated list.
Reported by: Obibok <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 18 years and 33 days ago; Modified 18 years and 32 days ago;
#470027 [w| | ] [grub-installer] Please display a list of all bootable drives and partitions
Reported by: Tom <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 17 years and 69 days ago; Modified 17 years and 66 days ago;
#477090 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: no support for dmraid and multipath for grub2
Reported by: Frans Pop <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:13:21 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version grub-installer/1.30; Filed 17 years and 26 days ago; Modified 16 years and 349 days ago;
#594128 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: grub doesn't update MBR on my disk - (trying Squeeze) Cannot Choose :P
Reported by: WC Jones <[email protected]>; Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:21:05 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 14 years and 266 days ago; Modified 14 years and 266 days ago;
#611045 [w| | ] [grub-installer] debian-installer: find a better way of detecting default GRUB bootloader install ___location
Reported by: Tobias Bußmann <[email protected]>; Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:06:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: d-i; Found in version grub-installer/1.117+deb8u1; Filed 14 years and 112 days ago; Modified 8 years and 191 days ago;
#612115 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub-installer: Please auto-install to the MBR when absolutely safe
Reported by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 00:57:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 14 years and 100 days ago; Modified 14 years and 100 days ago;
#625974 [w| | ] [grub-installer] grub installer should remind which partition Debian's / was installed on
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>; Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 13:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 14 years and 9 days ago; Modified 14 years and 7 days ago;
#666750 [w| | ] [os-prober, grub-installer] Please avoid differences between OS-en detected in the installer and those offered in GRUB
Reported by: Filipus Klutiero <[email protected]>; Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 44 days ago; Modified 11 years and 299 days ago;
#691205 [w| | ] [grub-installer] Provide instruction for Pegasos/Efika users to enable auto-boot in OF
Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:06:12 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 13 years and 61 days ago; Modified 12 years and 205 days ago;
#769407 [w| | ] [grub-installer] Should set up Grub for serial and console
Reported by: martin f krafft <[email protected]>; Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:21:07 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 183 days ago; Modified 7 years and 82 days ago;

Status
- 42 Outstanding
Severity
- 4 Important bugs
- 12 Normal bugs
- 3 Minor bugs
- 23 Wishlist items
Classification
- 9 Patch Available
- 32 Unclassified
- 1 Will Not Fix

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Debian Bug report logs: Bugs in package grub-installer

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Unclassified (3 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Important bugs; Will Not Fix (1 bug)

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