Out of curiosity, did you make sure to format the non-data storage partitions? If you didn't format partitions such as /, you will almost surely end up with leftover programs and configuration files from the previously installed GNU/Linux distribution messing up your new install.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > I just spent the past hour and a half installing Debian Unstable. I > used the minimal CD image, then Expert Mode. > > When I got completely to the end it wanted to install the boot loader. > The first option was Grub 2. Although I am unfamiliar with Grub 2, I > decided to let it go ahead. And then it announced that grub-update had > failed. > > I went back and told it to use Grub 1.5, but that failed also. > > The next choice was LILO. I know nothing of LILO, but I figured I could > change it to Grub later. I answered all the questions and it appeared > to install without error. > > When I rebooted I got a screen that says: > > Gnu Grub version 1.97 > [Minimal bash-like line editing is supported ... <more> } > grub > > > My guess is that Grub 2 did install, but incompletely. Grub 1.5 failed > because it detected Grub 2.0 already installed. I installed LILO to > sda1, not sda, think that doing so would make it easier to install Grub > later. But LILO doesn't start if there is something in the MBR. That is > just my WAG. > > As for why Grub failed initially, the hard disk had Squeeze installed > originally. Perhaps the reformatting failed to erase the MBR containing > parts of Grub pointing to Squeeze. > > So I guess I get to wipe it out and spend another hour and a half > reinstalling. And when I finish Grub will fail again, and I'll have to > go to Fry's and buy a new hard disk. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Luck is believing you are lucky. -- Tennessee Williams _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
