On Sat 02 Mar 2013 at 08:51:03 +0000, Brian wrote: > From another mail in this thread: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00073.html > > Some work for you. This iGRUB failure should be repeatable. When it > happens switch to console 4 with ALT-F4 and let us know what the last > syslog message is. It might mention "ISO9660 file system". > > > If that was important, wouldn't the syslog be displayed automatically? > > It is displayed automatically. All you have to do is look at it. > > > How am I to know about the syslog? > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en
When the stick with the Debian Live LXDE ISO is booted you reach a splash screen displaying a number of options. There are four text install entries. The advice above is applicable to them. There are also four gui install entries, which may only become visible by scrolling down the screen. With them you use CTRL-ALT-F4 to get to the syslog console. It transpires you have started another thread on exactly the same topic. This is not the best of strategies, as it fragments the information available to future users. However, in your mail at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00135.html it becomes clear (to me at least; maybe others already realised this) that you are running the install from within LXDE. My original interpretation of > 6 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB. in your first post in this thread was that you were using one of the splash screen's install methods. Anyway, from within LXDE you can press the ESCAPE key once when d-i appears and choose 'Execute a shell'. Within the shell type cat /var/log/syslog or more /var/log/syslog Now for http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg00158.html in which, if I understand you correctly, you state you have successfully installed LXDE to a USB (hard) drive using a text install from the Live splash screen. This is welcome news. It should be noted though that there is an important difference between the conditions under which your successful install took place and the failed one described in your first post. You claim > The problem is in the GUI installer. To do the installation > successfully, use the text-based installer. I'd not see this as being the problem, Both a text and a GUI install should succeed (or fail) under the *same* conditions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130302151627.GN14686@desktop
