M. Lewis wrote:
Mark Goldshtein wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:40 PM, M. Lewis <cajun@> wrote:
Thorny wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:58:32 -0500, M. Lewis posted:
I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little
success.
The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check
with
md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error:
Unable to install grub in (hd0)
Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed This is a fatal error.
[...]
Lets have a look at your /boot/grub/device.map
I didn't look at that, but now when I try to mount /dev/sda1 it's
telling me it is an invalid filesystem. Fdisk shows nothing now.
This gets more frustrating as it goes along.
Hey, man! Think positively :)
We are thinking about you!
It is Friday, have a beer :)
Maybe you should look for that partitioning utility on vendor web site?
Maybe the HDD should be pre-partitioned with that util before any OS
installation?
I've had several beers dealing with this thing already. A few more
sounds good.
I'll try that Mark. Stranger things have happened.
Thanks,
Mike
It was defiantly the brewskis that did the trick. Lenny is finally
installed along with GRUB.
In preparation to get the /boot/grub/device.map I could not mount the
HD. I did an fdisk -l and didn't see anything abnormal. I started fdisk,
and then I saw something different. I didn't document the exact message
as I didn't know at the time that would be the cure. The message was
something along the lines the drive could not be read as it did not have
a valid partition table that fdisk recognized. I continued in fdisk and
did 'o create a new empty DOS partition table', wrote the changes and
exited fdisk.
After this, I tried an amd64 netinst CD (previously I was using DVD #1).
The installation went as you would expect, including GRUB. No issues at all.
The only thing I can figure, is somehow the 'utility' partition that
Dell had put on the HD made the HD partially inaccessible to the Debian
Installer. Maybe it had some strange partition table, hidden or
something. Again, I don't know for certain this was the case, but that
is the only thing I did differently other than using the netinst which
*shouldn't* have made any difference.
Thanks to all for your help. Hopefully if someone else runs into this,
this might help them.
Thanks,
Mike
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