We have repeatedly and successfully installed from the d-i installer (beta 3+), and booted using grub. Now we are trying to install using FAI and having difficulties.
The machine is a new 2.8MHz P4 on an Intel motherboard with a 40GB HD. The primary partition is a 39..5GB type 83. The remainder of the disk is a swap partition.
To all appearences, grub is properly installed. I've pounded on grub-install "(hd0,0)" and the native install procedure in various permutations with almost no success. On one occasion, it started booting, but I have no idea what made the difference.
What I'm hoping for is a nudge (or two) to help discover what the problem is.
device.map looks like: (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
The last line of device.map used to look like: (hd0) /dev/hda
It didn't make a difference though.
menu.lst looks like: #========================================= timeout 10 default 0 color cyan/blue white/blue
title Debian GNU/Linux, vmlinuz-2.6.2 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2 root=/dev/hda1 #=========================================
The kernel exists at that location and we've booted many machines from it (including the one I'm writing this on)
When I install grub natively, this is what happens: grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> setup (hd0,0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in not fatal)
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in not fatal)
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 p /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.
Any help is appreciated. Russel Hill
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