Bug 21573 - drakboot crashed (grub2-install failed: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: error: install device isn't specified.)
Summary: drakboot crashed (grub2-install failed: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub...
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 6
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Keywords: NEEDINFO
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Reported: 2017-08-20 03:46 CEST by Steve Malich
Modified: 2017-11-16 09:06 CET (History)
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Source RPM: drakxtools-17.88-1.mga6
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Description Steve Malich 2017-08-20 03:46:15 CEST 
The "drakboot" program crashed. Drakbug-17.88 caught it.

Trying to set up boot system. I have three OSs installed: Mageia, Antergos, KaOS.

grub2-install failed: Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub2-install: error: install device isn't specified.
	...propagated at /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 269.
	...propagated at /usr/libexec/drakboot line 49.
Perl's trace:
drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/libexec/drakboot:49

Theme name: Adwaita
Kernel version = 4.9.28-desktop-1.mga6
Distribution=Mageia release 6 (Official) for x86_64
CPU=Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz
Comment 1 Martin Volf 2017-08-21 18:13:20 CEST 
 Duplicate to #21583

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21583 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => yullaw
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2017-08-21 21:13:57 CEST 
(In reply to Martin Volf from comment #1)
>  Duplicate to #21583
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21583 ***

At first sight they look the same, and maybe they'll turn out to be the same bug in the end, but for now that bug is about failure to install on a x86_64-efi platform and this one about failing to install on a 32bit legacy system.

@ Steve

Please attach log.txt that is the result of running, as root:

 journalctl -a --since="2017-08-19 20:00" --until="2017-08-20 08:00" > log.txt

*adjust* date and time in that commant, so that you get the logs from right before you started to set up the boot system until right after the crash.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => mageiatools, marja11, zen25000
Summary: drakboot crashed => drakboot crashed (grub2-install failed: Installing for i386-pc platform. grub2-install: error: install device isn't specified.)
Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2017-08-21 21:14:49 CEST 
s/commant/command/
Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2017-09-10 16:53:47 CEST 
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #2)

> 
> @ Steve
> 
> Please attach log.txt that is the result of running, as root:
> 
>  journalctl -a --since="2017-08-19 20:00" --until="2017-08-20 08:00" >
> log.txt
> 
> *adjust* date and time in that command, so that you get the logs from right
> before you started to set up the boot system until right after the crash.


Can you please attach that file, Steve?
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2017-11-16 09:06:09 CET 
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional information.

Closing as OLD.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
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