On 12/5/2015 9:20 AM, Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > I think you should add more detail. Show your partition tables, show the > commands you used to install, show the messages that indicate the wrong > thing happened.
I think you have me moving in a productive {possibly not "*THE* right"} direction. "Show your partition tables" lead to reading up on fdisk. I don't know to "show the commands you used to install" as was responding to prompts from the installer. I was hoping that log files would give useful info. In answer to my second question of my debian-user post, I discovered existence of "/var/log/installer/". I had read "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" several times in the last couple of years. That's why I knew log files existed. Just didn't remember where. As to "show the messages that indicate the wrong thing happened", there were none - i.e. a "silent" failure. The only system was inability to boot the newly installed system. I'm now setting out to do a series of installs to *CLEAN* media. That explicitly means use of "dd" with "if=/dev/zero". Yess I do have hardware dedicated to 'educational' experiments <GRIN> { > 50 yrs of component level trouble shooting has taught me to start from a known state ;} > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > >> I posted the following question Dec 2 to the debian-user list. My >> observation has of that list has been initial replies will be >> within 24 hours. >> >> My inference is question was poorly framed or not posted to >> suitable forum. >> { I've made minor edits indicated by [[new text]] .} >> Comments please. Thank you. >> >> On 12/2/2015 12:06 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I have successfully installed Squeeze {6.0.10} to a flash drive. >>> I can't seem to do the same with Jessie {8.0}. >>> >>> All my installs are from purchased copies of DVD 1. >>> Both Squeeze and Jessie install to the hard drive without problems. >>> >>> My first attempt [[installing to flash]] with Jessie was using Expert >> mode but accepting >>> all defaults except configuring network [none present] and >>> setting clock to UTC. On reboot all I got was a blank screen and >>> a flashing cursor. >>> >>> On my second attempt I first installed Squeeze to the flash drive >>> to verify that all hardware [and the operator ;] was functional. >>> It/I was. >>> >>> I then installed Squeeze to entire [[flash]] drive. It booted normally. >>> I shrank the Squeeze partition with Gparted and then attempted to >>> install Jessie to the freed space. All appeared to go as expected. >>> >>> HOWEVER, on reboot I saw the Grub screen created by the install >>> of Squeeze. >>> I booted to Squeeze and ran update-grub. >>> On reboot there were now entries for both Squeeze and Jessie. >>> BOTH could be started and appeared normal. >>> >>> 1. Is this a known problem? How would I search BTS for it? >>> 2. How would I have the installer send all relevant log files to >>> my hard drive? >>> >>> TIA >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug