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Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition

From Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition
Date 2018-09-04 21:10 +0200
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> AFAICS you did not write anything about /boot/grub.

I did not mention it by name, I only said there are two parts and I do not
see why the mere installation to the MBR or to the EFI area should fail ;).

> > Can you explain why this fails on installation, where /boot/grub can be written?
> 
> grub-install must hardcode the location of /boot/grub into the core image. I
> guess it sees that /boot/grub is encrypted but encryption is not enabled for
> GRUB.

Oh ok. If that's true, probably a reasonable error message would be helpful
☺.

-nik

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Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Albin <public@inquisitive.se> - 2018-09-04 13:40 +0200
  Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2018-09-04 14:00 +0200
    Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-04 20:10 +0200
      Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2018-09-04 20:30 +0200
        Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-04 20:50 +0200
          Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2018-09-04 21:10 +0200
            Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-04 22:20 +0200
    Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition Albin <public@inquisitive.se> - 2018-09-04 20:40 +0200

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