Package: installation-reports Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> CD
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> Wheezy release Beta 1 AMD64 Netinst http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-netinst.iso Date: <Date and time of the install> August 18 and August 19, several attempts Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> Lenovo IdeaCentre K210 Processor: Intel Dual Core Pentium E5200 Memory: 4G Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> Partition 1: Windows Vista (620 GB) Partition 2: free space (19 GB) Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): not available Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [O] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [E] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: I tried several attempts, with different partitioning. In each case, I preserved partition 1, which held a Windows Vista partition. The free space was either partitioned into a swap and a root partition, or was used as an encrypted partition with LVM holding a swap and root logical volume. I also tried several choices about what partitions were bootable. I didn't really know what this should have been, which may well have been part of the problem. One of the choices I tried was to let the installer automatically partition the free space. For all of these choices, when I got to the Grub screen, the installer did not recognize the Vista installation. Eventually, I went ahead anyway and let grub install. But the installation to the MBR got a fatal error, and trying to let grub install elsewhere eventually got my system pretty messed up. Telling grub to install at /dev/sda2 finally did it in and its not bootable now. Next step will be to try a clean install to the entire drive, overwriting the Vista. As a second oddity, once when I was at the Popularity Contest screen, I hit the Go Back button. This was a mistake, as it locked up the installation and I eventually had to restart the machine and installation to unfreeze it. Thanks for all the great work you people do. I hope this report helps make Debian a bit better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bay145-w485d26144cc5b26865402488...@phx.gbl