Hi, I tried an 2.6 kernel install using the RC1 installer and encountered some problems. I'll document the minor problems later on. I encountered one major problem.
I used the debian installer to create 3 logical partitions (/, /home and swap) and installed grub as the boot-loader. During the grub install, it successfully picked up my windows partition and added that to the boot menu. When I rebooted however, grub failed to boot windows xp for me. In particular, when I selected the windows xp option, grub proceeds until the point where it hands over control to the windows xp boot-loader (it seems like, I'm not a windows expert) and it then hangs indefinitely. I can see no documentation in debian (or reported problems) indicating any problems like this but I did come across this http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 which seems to have the same symptoms. Would the RC1 install using a 2.6 kernel make any changes to the partition table? If so, I think we need to sort this before release. In my time installing and using Debian, I've never had it hose a windows install like this. For reference, I've tried the following to revive my windows install, all to no avail. 1. booted up to windows recovery console and ran combinations of fixmbr, fixboot and bootcfg. No change. 2. Reset the mbr using ms-sys (debian package) and reinstalled windows in repair mode. 3. Reset the mbr using ms-sys and did a complete reinstall of windows (without formatting the disk first). The only thing I haven't tried is a format and reinstall of windows - before I do that I want to know if there is any information I can provide (fdisk -l output etc.) that would be useful before I do a reinstall? Thanks to everyone for their great work on the installer. I'd like to help to get this particular problem sorted before the release of Sarge but I'd also like to get my system up and running again so if anyone does need anything, please advise by this evening. Thanks, -stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.skynet.ie/~stephen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
