Bug#550902: bug installing debian 5.03 - perhaps related to grub
Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 05:40 -0700 schrieb jeffunit: I installed debian 5.03 on my computer, using the dvd image. The install seemed to go fine. When I rebooted, I got a grub message about with an error like 'error 15'. I did not get to the grub boot menu. It would have been better if you filed a normal installation-report: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html.en#problem-report That is clearly a better way to report issues, however I couldn't find that, looking at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ Yeah it's AFAIK only in the installation-howto. But I close now the report, instead of just reassigning to grub-installer, where this would belong to, because we switched now to GRUB 2 by default. I doubt it has the same problem. You could try out the daily images or wait until alpha 1 gets released and then try again. If it still has problems booting your installed system, then please file a regular installation-report with attaching the compressed syslog of the installer. Even if you can't directly boot your system, you can still get the logs from a usual LiveCD or even debian-installer's rescue mode. I think they're in /var/log/installer/ Ok. Any idea when GRUB 2 will get into the stable release? I would prefer to be running a more thoroughly debugged version of the os. GRUB 2 is packaged in lenny already and in expert you should have got the question to use it. But the lenny version of it isn't yet that stable. Or is your /boot on a SATA fake RAID aka dmraid? Then you can't use grub2 yet. With the daily businesscard you can also install stable/lenny if you use expert mode or boot with priority=medium which doestn't show every question of expert mode. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550902: bug installing debian 5.03 - perhaps related to grub
Package: grub or debian installation Version: unknown I installed debian 5.03 on my computer, using the dvd image. The install seemed to go fine. When I rebooted, I got a grub message about with an error like 'error 15'. I did not get to the grub boot menu. The machine is a fileserver with 6 ide disks running mdadm. There is a 7th ide disk where I installed the os (dual booting with windows). The motherboard is an asus cur-dls, with 2 pentium III 933 processors, 1.1gb of ram, and two promise tx-100x2 cards, with the ide drives attached to them. The dvd drive is attached to the ide controller on the motherboard. When the install got to the grub installation, it detected windows xp, and asked if there were any other os's (which there were not). After the system failed to boot, I reinstalled 5.03, using the expert install option. There were no additional grub configuration options. The os install seemed to mess up the partition table on my mdadm array. After installing mandriva 2009.1, I had to reformat the partition. I suspect the problem is the os disk is not the first disk detected by the bios. Previous to installing 5.03, I was running mandriva 2007. After being unable to install debian, I successfully installed mandriva 2009.1, which also used grub. The grub configuration was successful at booting mandriva as well as windows xp. The bios was set to boot the os disk first. I can't provide the exact error message, as I was unable to boot the machine. I can't provide a transcript for the same reason. I suspect that your grub configuration had the wrong disk configured in it. I don't know the exact version of grub, or the kernel, as I couldn't boot the os. jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
