On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 07:18:45PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote: >On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 18:32:31 +0100 >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Hazel, >> >> This report surprises me, as I tested that exact image a number of >> times in a number of different scenarios and it worked fine for me. >> >> Can you tell us more about your setup, please? How do you use the ISO? >> On a USB stick, or on a CD/DVD? If on USB, how exactly did you write >> the USB stick? >> >> What partition and filesystem setup did you use? >> >> Finally, there should be log files in /var/log/installer on your new >> system. Could you share those with us as well please? >> > >I was using a CD but in an external drive plugged into a usb socket, as >my internal CD drive has just packed up. It's rather an old computer!
ACK. :-) >The Debian partition is sda7, formatted ext4. I created it in partman >during the installation. As far as I can see from today's explorations, >installation has been fine except for this one glitch, which was more of >an irritation than a serious problem. I've attached the installation >syslog to this email. Thanks, I'm looking at it now to see if there's anything obvious. >I normally prefer lilo to grub, so I reinstalled lilo from one of my >other Linuxen, but I could do a grub-install in Debian to test out the >grub.cfg file, which I've now renamed. Would you like me to do that? I'll get back to you... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews