Op Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:50:09 +0100, schreef Darac Marjal: Hi Darac,
thank you for your response. > This sounds like a failure in your boot loader. I notice that you say > you use debootstrap to install the base system, rather than using the > installer. Indeed. It's a dedicated server from OVH that I don't have physical access to. I don't have the possibility to use the Debian installer. It would have made it easier, that's for sure. > Have you remembered to install a boot loader? debootstrap > normally expects to be installing into a chroot or similar, so won't do > all the necessary tasks that are needed for a bare-metal install. If > you've installed grub (I suspect you want grub-efi-amd64, if you're > using a 64-bit PC), check that the necessary files were loaded into > /boot/efi (your partition #1 above). You may also get a "Debian" entry > in your firmware boot selection menu. I have installed grub, but not grub-efi-amd64. I use a GPT table (not MBR), but I don't have an efi parition, only a small EF02 Bios boot partition as I read you need one for some Grub files when using GPT layout. I'm not sure this requires me to install the grub-efi-amd64 version? In my off line test in Virtualbox, I was able to install a 64 bit Debian Wheezy with the standard grub with the same disk layout and it booted without problems. > If, however, grub IS installed, how far through its boot does it get? Do > you get a "rescue>" prompt? Do you get the menu up? etc. I don't have physical access and I don't have a way to view/watch the boot process. On one occasion the web interfaces' hardware reboot feature failed, requiring a technician to reboot the server. He said he saw a rescue prompt. But that's all the info I have gotten so far. > If you get a "rescue>" prompt, try the following (cadged from the Gentoo > Wiki): > insmod gzio insmod part_msdos # Probably don't need this, actually > insmod part_gpt insmod diskfilter insmod mdraid1x insmod ext2 set > root="mduuid/<tab>" > linux /boot/vmlinuz blahblah inirtd /boot/initramfs blahblah > > Tab completion should be available, and SHOULD find the UUID of your > raid (or produce an error, if not, hopefully) > If you get as far as the menu, do you get any errors when you try to > select Debian? See above, I can't perform these actions. I asked them if there is such a console, haven't gotten any answer back. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/mne1ea$mfj$3...@ger.gmane.org