Two of you replied to my bug report. I'll send my replies to both of you.
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:21:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 06:23, Jack Carroll wrote: > > FIRST RUN: > > At reboot, the GRUB screen listed only "Other operating systems", > > showing the kernel previously installed in /dev/hda1. It didn't list > > the newly installed kernel. > > Which probably means that you are running an old grub and not the one > created by the new installation. No, if that were the case, it wouldn't have shown the previously installed OS on /dev/hda1 as "Other operating system". > > > Booted the previously installed system in /dev/hda1 (Debian Sarge, > > kernel 2.6.8-686). Mounted /dev/hda2 and examined /boot on that > > partition. No kernel, initrd, or System.map files present, only a grub > > directory. The progress bars said it was installing the kernel, but > > it's not there. > > Impossible. If the installer cannot install the kernel, it will fail in a > big way. They _have_ been installed, just not where you are looking. > > Try running the installation again and, after the base-installation phase > has finished, switch to VT2 (using alt-F2) and ls /target/boot. You > should see the kernel there. > Do the same after bootloader installation. I'll run that test. I'll also run the "mount" command at that time, to find out where /target/boot is mounted. It should tell us something. > > My guess is that you are affected in some way by the first erratum item > listed on [1]. > > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata No, I don't think so. There's only one hard disk, even though it's partitioned to allow triple-booting. The only other IDE device is a CD-ROM drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]