Bug#387855: GRUB

2006-09-17 Thread Otavio Salvador 
Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Installing the bootloader failed. The installer didn't
 create a /boot/grub/menu.lst, so it couldn't install GRUB.

What image you were using?

There's a know bug[1], my personally fault, that migrated to testing and
a fixed package is waiting on sid and should be available on testing
in few days (2, iirc).

1. http://bugs.debian.org/387500,
   http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub/news/20060915T131705Z.html

Please keep me informated since I'm very commited to have a good and
working GRUB solution for etch.

TIA,

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Bug#387855: GRUB

2006-09-16 Thread Ken Bloom 
The installer asked a number of debconf questions that I would have
expected to be preseeded (probably becuase I didn't specify
debian/priority=critical)

Installing the bootloader failed. The installer didn't
create a /boot/grub/menu.lst, so it couldn't install GRUB.

When I booted into the system (after manually installing GRUB), the
system had a user account for me (apparently, it got that from the
preseed), but root was set to sudo (even though in the end, I had
asked it not to do that). I had to reboot from a boot CD and poke
around in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in order to figure that out.

I'll report anything else I find here, but I think I'm beyond the
behavior of the installer, now that I'm downloading the 900MB of
packages that used to be on the system before I reinstalled it.

--Ken Bloom

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/


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