Package: debian-installer Severity: normal
(This is from memory, please forgive minor errors in naming etc.) Booting the net-inst CD in rescue mode and installing GRUB to (fd0) produces a floppy which on booting gave me a 'geom error'. From the amount of copying done (I later used grub-floppy to create a disk, which worked well), not all of the stage files were copied onto it. Some details which may be important: (hd0): SCSI drive with GRUB boot block in MBR and a single NTFS partition (hd1): Newly installed S-ATA drive with single NTFS partition (hd2), shifted up from (hd1): Old P-ATA drive with several partitions, including ext3 root (containing /boot/grub/*stage* files) and swap. Scenario: I was trying to fix my system, which had become unbootable after I had installed an S-ATA controller and drive. Apparently this caused my drive numbers (hd1 and up) to shift up. First, I tried to install GRUB onto (hd0), which failed, probably because GRUB had no place to write its stage files, and I saw no way to tell it where to do so. Next I tried to write GRUB to a boot floppy, which wouldn't boot. Eventually I managed to enter a chroot from which I executed grub-floppy, which made a usable floppy. -- Alain Kalker -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
