On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:05:40 +0200, Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> wrote: > Karl Goetz schreef: >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:13:17 +0200 >> Imad-Eddine SRAIRI <i...@srairi.net> wrote: >>> with it and let it go on without interfering, but it hung again. One >>> more 'off+on+del' later, I was back in pmon and retyped the three >>> lines quoted above. The system started and I was able to log in. I >>> checked content of /boot/boot.cfg and /etc/default/grub and edited >>> the latter like this: >>> >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty no_auto_cmd machtype=8.9" >>> >>> (I do not like the 'quiet' option, so I left >>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT unchanged to "".) >> >> right. >> >>> I ran 'update-grub2' (as root) (notice the '2' because this is what I >> >> update-grub2 is a wrapper around update-grub, so they do the same work. >> >>> found in /boot/boot.cfg: grub version 2) and restarted: everything >>> seems to work now. >> >> What changed in grubs config? thats what we need to know, since >> update-grub won't be touching boot.cfg. >> >>> Graziano, if you manage to confirm that the same steps work for you >>> (there is nothing new here really wrt the wiki's current content, >>> except maybe a few additional details), we could add these details on >>> the wiki page to help future generations of metad-installer-wannabes >>> like me... :-) >> >> To whoever tries this next: >> - Save /etc/grub/grub.d >> - Save /etc/default/grub >> - Save /boot/ >> >> * BEFORE* running update-grub. >> The before and after is what tells us where to go next. > > For lack of cooperation I did an install myself. That confirmed my > suspicions of missing boot parameters (installer proposes empty > GRUB_CMDLINE* values). This should have been fixed by rev. 1916 of > grub-yeeloong, but there's no package with that fix in the archive > (anymore?). The installer downloads 1.98~20091212-2 (rmh/byhand), which > is older than the fix. >
Thank you for taking time to do a test installation. Is there the possibility to backport the new package with the fix so that users will find a working installation by default? Graz. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev