Package: Grub / Debian installer
Version: Debian Installer, floppy-install prerelease marked as Working, downloaded oct. 8. 2004 (from http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/)
Package: Grub or Debian Installer
Hardware: - Four Western Digital Venturis P1, 100-133 Hz, harddisks betwen 13 and 160 GiB (one harddisk on each), 64 MB RAM on each computer - One TCI 80486 dx2 one 80 GiB harddisk 32 MB RAM
Harddisks partitioned as: - /boot (~30 MB at the beginning, marked as active bootpartition), - swap (~300 MB directly after the boot partition), - / (all remaining space)
What I do to demonstrate the problem:
- Install Debian, by fetching the distribution over web.
I am using the plain installer (pressing [enter] at the initial installation screen).
- Reboot the computer after the initial packages have been successfully installed
Expected behaviour: - A Grub - menu, with boot option
Observed behaviour: - BIOS screen with initial data, and below is the following message: ********** * GRUB Loading stage1.5. * * GRUB loading, please wait... * Error 18 **********
Suggested fix: Either replace GRUB with LiLO from the plain installer, or fix the problem with GRUB and large harddisks.
All computers are running Debian Testing perfectly if I use the old installer from Woody, and keeps LiLO as bootloader when upgrading to Testing. A quick Google using the keywords 'Grub "error 18"' gave me 547 different hits at the time of this report (okt. 12. 2004), so personally I think this might be a serious problem with GRUB.
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