Ok, I had a chance to look into this issue further... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=259297
I checked the output of terminal #3 while the installer was running and it turns out that Grub is choking on the following error: "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." The next step I took was to try and install Grub on a floppy, so that I could at least boot the new system and try to install Grub outside of the installer. When specifying (fd0) as the disk to install on, I got the same error as listed in my original bug report. That is, Grub fails to load with a fatal error. After choosing "Continue" in the installer, I tried to install grub again on the hard disk. I choose "Yes" to the question, "Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?". It gave me the message "Running "grub-install (hd0)", but in fact it was writing to (fd0)??? So this looks like a bug in the installer. Both running the GRUB installer to (hd0) and (fd0) gave me the error on console 3: "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." I then re-ran the GRUB installer from the menu again. This time choosing "No" to the question, "Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?". I was then able to specify where I wanted to install GRUB to. I typed (hd0) and hit return. Same set of errors again. 1st) Progress bar appears with the title "Installing GRUB boot loader" and the message "Running "grub-install (hd0)"...". Followed by a message with the title, "[!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a " and the message in the window, "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)/n Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed./n This is a fatal error." <Go Back> <Continue> I choose "continue". Then di gives me another message box with the title, "[!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk " and the message in the window, "Installation step failed/n An installation step failed. You can try to run the failing item again from the menu, or skip it an choose something else. The failing step is: Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk" <Continue> Then it brings me back to the main window. I should point out here that when specifying (hd0) as the place to install GRUB, it AGAIN wrote to (fd0)!?!? Indecently it gave the same error on console 3 again, "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly." I took the floppy disk out of the disk drive. I ran through the same steps as above to try and write GRUB to (hd0). It again tries to write to a floppy that isn't there. Weird. I then choose, "Continue without boot loader", thinking this is going nowhere. Then said, finish installation. FYI the installation media I used was from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ with a date of 7-20-2004. When I rebooted my computer without a floppy or a CD rom in the drive the computer booted to GRUB?!? Despite it telling me that it failed. So, I dug up the docs for GRUB found here: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html I then ran the following commands in the GRUB shell. grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.7-1-386 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x104e82] grub> boot It started to boot the kernel then I got the following relevant errors: VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,3) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,3) Ok, no problem, I need to specify the correct root kernel option. So, I rebooted the computer and repeated the steps above in grub this time giving the "kernel" command the following: grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 So I received the same error as above. Went back to the GRUB documentation again to find out what was wrong. I then ran the same commands as above, but giving some more command options: grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 grub> initrd /initrd.img grub> boot This time it failed again, but with a different error: pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! So that time it loaded by RAID controller driver aacraid v. (1.1.2-lk1 Jul 8 2004), but failed to open dev/console... this is far as I can go now. I just finished downloading the di image from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/sarge-i386- netinst.iso, with a date of 7-22-2004. I'll give this a try and report back. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
