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

From Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Can't install Debian without dedicated /boot partition
Date 2018-09-04 20:50 +0200
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Le 04/09/2018 à 20:21, Dominik George a écrit :
>> *cough*
>> You should get some information about how GRUB is installed and works.
>> GRUB comes in two main parts :
>> - the core image in various locations (+ boot image in some boot sector
>> for GRUB BIOS)
>> - the /boot/grub directory
> 
> Yep. I basically said that (in paragraphs you removed from the quote :)).

AFAICS you did not write anything about /boot/grub.

> 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.

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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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