Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2009 18:58:17 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> ok, so let's move beyond anecdotes and get into conjecture -- does >> anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what* >> circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as a >> bootloader, and only present lilo? > > A potentially useful experiment is to try installing grub manually > on the partition, and see if it works, or if it doesn't, what errors > it reports.
I never could find out how you can install packages from the installer - they are in some funny format. Could post the steps for the record (or may be a link) > > The installer may be suppressing error reports. I believe you can > view the installation log during the install, from an alt console, but > I'm not 100% sure it's possible, and I certainly don't remember how. > Well, it's correct ALT+F[234] could help, but I don't think in this particular case, because it is just deciding to not offer grub. I don't know, who is using installer CD/DVD? regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
