Hi all. I am currently attempting to install Debian on a laptop that currently has only windows xp on it. Using the testing netinstall iso, i ran the setup process several times but I keep getting the same problem over and over. The partition tables is as follows:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xace22e9e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3825 6797 23880622+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 6798 9729 23551290 83 Linux (I have also tried creating a separate /boot partition [hda3] before the root partition [hda4], but that didn't change the outcome) Debian installation works smoothly and the new system is correctly deployed on the laptop. Unfortunately I am never able to boot into it. Grub2 starts but after a while the message "Unknown filesystem" is printed and a rescue console is started. Only a few basic commands are available and none of them helped me figure out where the problem is. After booting into a live distro, I checked grub2's configuration files but those seemed fine too. As a desperate move, I tried to netinstall debian stable that comes with grub legacy. That installation was successful too but still I couldn't make it past grub, which returned "Error 17". Despite having some good experience with linux systems, I am totally clueless on this one. Any suggestions? -RV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
