Hi, On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:59:02AM +0200, Raven wrote: > 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?
Please rememmber (hd0,1) is /dev/hda1 under grub2. The debconf question is not really good for grub2 but the maintainer thinks it will be better deald for squeeze. (Being forced to use grub 2 under lenny since I use MacBook, I was not so happy about it). I am not really following this pat of squeeze. But following may be useful. http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch03.en.html#_stage_2_the_boot_loader Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
