grub-installer on arndale-* machine fails with Debian Bookworm. It
tries to install "grub-pc" which doesn't exist. Skip installation.

Somehow, cubietruck-* installation works fine.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
---
 Osstest/Debian.pm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Osstest/Debian.pm b/Osstest/Debian.pm
index 36c05551..98b2fc86 100644
--- a/Osstest/Debian.pm
+++ b/Osstest/Debian.pm
@@ -1581,6 +1581,14 @@ chmod +x /target/$t
 END
     }
 
+    if ( $ho->{Flags}{'need-uboot-bootscr'} &&
+        $ho->{Suite} =~ m/bookworm/) {
+
+        # grub-installer fails on the arndale machine, it's trying to install
+        # "grub-pc" which doesn't exist. Skip installation.
+        $preseed_file .= "d-i grub-installer/skip boolean true\n";
+    }
+
     $preseed_file .= preseed_hook_cmds();
 
     if ($backports_kernel || $ho->{Flags}{'no-di-kernel'}) {
-- 
Anthony PERARD

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:55:19PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> grub-installer on arndale-* machine fails with Debian Bookworm. It
> tries to install "grub-pc" which doesn't exist. Skip installation.
> 
> Somehow, cubietruck-* installation works fine.

I'm kind of puzzled by this, as cubietruck and arndales are both armhf
IIRC? (IOW: they should use the same repo?)

Does the install of grub-pc succeed on the cubietruck, or is skipped
for some other reason that doesn't require us to intervene?

Thanks, Roger.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 05:38:17PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 04:55:19PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > grub-installer on arndale-* machine fails with Debian Bookworm. It
> > tries to install "grub-pc" which doesn't exist. Skip installation.
> > 
> > Somehow, cubietruck-* installation works fine.
> 
> I'm kind of puzzled by this, as cubietruck and arndales are both armhf
> IIRC? (IOW: they should use the same repo?)
> 
> Does the install of grub-pc succeed on the cubietruck, or is skipped
> for some other reason that doesn't require us to intervene?

It's skipped.

The difference I can see is that, on the cubietruck, there's an extra
step. And it's due to this extra logging:
    debconf: --> METAGET debian-installer/flash-kernel-installer/title Description
    debconf: <-- 0 Make the system bootable

On the cubietruck, there would be these installation step:
    ..., Select and install software, Make the system bootable, Install the GRUB boot loader, ...
But on the arndale, it would be instead:
    ..., Select and install software, Install the GRUB boot loader, ...

Somehow, flash-kernel-installer does something different on both
machine.

Thanks,

-- 
Anthony PERARD