Package: debian-installer Version: lenny Severity: normal
I have a Dell SC420 with a ICH6 on-board SATA controller (sda), and a PDC20268 2-port PATA with two drives on it (hde, hdg) I installed from the business card iso on a USB flash stick. I install GRUB to the root partition (sda2) because then Windows can't get at it. This was a fresh install, and I install to sda2 (hde, hdg are my data disks). After the install, the machine was unbootable. "Unable to load operating system". Booting back into the installer (soon wishing I had the 'rescue' image on the full CD), I was able to determine with dd that GRUB had NOT been installed on any drive or partition. dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=512 count=1 showed only zero'd out bytes (this was a newly partition/filesystem). I did the install a couple more times without any more success (I saw a grub-installer error, I think it was about a device map file missing, but in my haste to get the machine up, I didn't think to write it down exactly). Removing the PDC20268 card made the install and subsequent boot work fine. Please let me know what more information you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org