On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:06:54PM -0700, Mike Armstrong wrote: > 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.
Thanks. I know about System Drive vs Boot Drive, but it seems win32-loader's use of it wasn't really consistent. I think I fixed this now. Please could you test latest SVN? If you don't know how to build from source, let me know and I'll provide a binary for you. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org