Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: beta4 from debian web page uname -a: didn't get that far Date: 23 May 2004 13:00 - 18:00 MEST Method: Booted CD-ROM using 100 MB image
Machine: Custom built but fairly standard Processor: P III 1.2 GHz Memory: 512 MB Root Device: IDE, INTEL on-board Root Size/partition table: /dev/hda1 80 GB -- Windows /dev/hdb1 100 MB -- /boot -- ext3 /dev/hdb2 512 MB -- SWAP /dev/hdb3 30 GB -- / -- XFS /dev/hdb4 92 GB -- /home -- XFS Output of lspci: didn't get that far Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [0] Configure network HW: [0] Config network: [0] (see comment below) Detect CD: [0] Load installer modules: [0] Detect hard drives: [0] Partition hard drives: [0] Create file systems: [0] Mount partitions: [0] Install base system: [0] Install boot loader: [E] Reboot: [E] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: This is my second try (first was with beta3 here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=240911 ) I still miss an ADSL option on network configuration (even if it would just skip the network configuration -- Having to put in bogus data that I know will later be replaced by my ADSL configuration is not "optimal") I still have the same boot loader problems I had with beta3. I didn't try as extensively as last time (see above link for details) but the problem seems to be the same still: - My setup contains a Windows partition on hda1, Debian is supposed to go on my new hdb hard drive using the XFS file system. - I was unable to install a working GRUB or LILO on hdb or hdb1 (I want it there in order to dd the bootsector into a file and use that with the Windows bootloader -- this is the way I do it now with LILO and it works flawlessly) - I tried all different combinations of GRUB and LILO with a /boot partition and without and with hdb1 and hdb as targets. I got some variants of L, GRUB, GRUB GRUB GRUB, GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... (<- these are the error messages upon booting) - Yes, I did the dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsectorfile ... (using KNOPPIX) and copied the file over to the windows partition every time. The booting works on the Windows side because if I put my old hdb back in and remove the newly installed hdb and do this procedure my current system boots just fine. Observations: - I inspected the generated lilo.conf in one of the tries WITH a /boot partition and noticed that it contains pointers to kernel and initrd.img in / (e.G. image=/vmlinuz). Now there are links to the correct files in the root filesystem but I wonder if lilo.conf shouldn't point directly to the files in /boot as the root filesystem is not yet accessible. I changed this manually in a chroot environment but that didn't do the trick either. - If boot loader installation fails there is no way to boot the system. I would really appreciate a rescue image on the installer media. Then I could just try playing from within the running system to install a boot loader (as opposed to re-partitioning and re-installing just to try a new bootloader-approach) Thanks for the hard work on the installer. Everything else works flawlessly and beautifully for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
