improve error message with a hint to install grub2-common

[forks/vmdebootstrap.git] / vmdebootstrap

diff --git a/vmdebootstrap b/vmdebootstrap
index bf82e3a305c64296a214b7e65ad443ad17e613ef..8301bd5c6452ee333d232c412bf42e4efadebc91 100755 (executable)
--- a/vmdebootstrap
+++ b/vmdebootstrap
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class VmDebootstrap(cliapp.Application):
         self.settings.string(['mirror'],
                              'use MIRROR as package source (%default)',
                              metavar='URL',
-                             default='http://cdn.debian.net/debian/')
+                             default='http://http.debian.net/debian/')
         self.settings.string(['arch'], 'architecture to use (%default)',
                              metavar='ARCH',
                              default=default_arch)
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ class VmDebootstrap(cliapp.Application):
             self.runcmd(['chroot', rootdir, 'update-grub'])
             self.runcmd(['chroot', rootdir, 'grub-install', install_dev])
         except cliapp.AppException as e:
-            self.message("Failed to configure grub2. Using extlinux.")
+            self.message("Failed. Is grub2-common installed? Using extlinux.")
         self.runcmd(['umount', os.path.join(rootdir, 'sys')])
         self.runcmd(['umount', os.path.join(rootdir, 'proc')])
         self.runcmd(['umount', os.path.join(rootdir, 'dev')])