Package: installation Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source
Windows identifies two partitions (drives) involved in the boot process - the boot drive and the system drive. The boot drive is the active partition and the system drive is the drive containing the Windows kernel (ntoskrnl.exe) The Windows-Based Install for Debian assumes that the Windows boot drive and system drive are the same. The install uses the value in %SystemDrive% to identify where to install the grub bootloader stuff (g2ldr, g2ldr.mbr, grub.conf) and the \debian directory. This is AOK for most Windows installations. However the root drive and system drive can be different (e.g. I have a small boot partition that will boot either Vista or XP both of which are located in a separate partition). In this case the Debian boot-install will not boot. The temporary fix is to reboot into Windows and copy/move \g2ldr, \g2ldr.mbr, \grub.conf and \debian into the boot drive. Then reboot and do the install. The Debian install should check to see if the file "\ntldr" (for Windows NT, 2000, server 2000. XP, server 2003) or "\bootmgr" (for Vista and Server 2008) exists in %SystemDrive%. If neither doesn't exist then Debian should (a) search for them or (b) ask the user where the initial boot program is located. Identifying the active partition may not be sufficient as the user may be using a non- Windows bootloader that doesn't rely on the active partition to boot. I hope this helps to improve the install process. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
