Re: newbie last try
Hi, 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During [snip] This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not fixed. From what I remember the installer for AMD64 does not have the necessary scripts to recognize a Windows partition on NTFS. The fix someone mentioned then was to use the same scripts for AMD64 as i386 already uses
Re: Re: newbie last try
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: 2. When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the shell: nv_sata: primary device added nv_sata: primary device removed nv_sata: secondary device added nv_sata: secondary device removed Thsi keeps going on throughout the rest of the install, when trying to get apt-get working, to the point where I can't choose options or type since this is continually running and bringing the screen down. Horribly frustrating and irritating. No other distributions I tried had this problem, x86 or amd64. I remember seeing a post about this a few weeks ago. IIRC the poster finished the installation blind and set a few configs afterwards that fixed this. Check the archives from september for how and what he did. More specifically, this message provides the workaround: http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/10/msg2.html -- Nils Nordman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie last try
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote: 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During [snip] This is an old bug I reported several months ago already. It is still not fixed. What is the bug, exactly? I have grub booting into Windows XP on an NTFS partition on a SATA drive without any problems. I used the other OS entry in /usr/share/doc/grub/examples/menu.lst and it just worked (once it worked at all; iirc I had to install grub manually at the end of the install (a couple of months ago).) Which is not to say there aren't any problems, but there are setups that do what you're trying to do. --Pete
newbie last try
Sorry for the repeat, but my system is unusable at the moment and I wanted to give it one last try before I completely forget debian and settle for andother distro. 1. I am unable to have windows in option for boot-up in GRUB. During the installation process for the bootloader, it says I have no other operating system. Do I need to parition differently? Windows XP is on an NTFS partition that I set as do not use this partion but turned the bootable flag on. NTFS is not an option in the installer, like FAT32 so I can mount that as a DOS parition, which I do. Can anyone help with this? 2. When I finish installing the base system and bootloader and reboot, I constantly have the same code consistently repeating in the shell: nv_sata: primary device added nv_sata: primary device removed nv_sata: secondary device added nv_sata: secondary device removed Thsi keeps going on throughout the rest of the install, when trying to get apt-get working, to the point where I can't choose options or type since this is continually running and bringing the screen down. Horribly frustrating and irritating. No other distributions I tried had this problem, x86 or amd64. Any help would be VERY much appreciated. Thank you Ross MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum nForce3 Ultra Athlon 64(FX) Skt939 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Dual LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Processor Socket 939 Retail Western Digital Raptor serial ATA hard drive (74 GB, 10,000rpm) eVGA GeForce 6800 AGP 8X 128MB DDR Video Card
