Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-22 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): dtReboot problems when installing from a USB stik/dt stick ... Rest looks good to me. Change committed signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-21 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes; I agree that the errata text could be improved to be more clear for outsiders. Could you propose a text and we review it here in mailing list? Here it is: [EMAIL

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-20 Thread debbug . lenny . grub
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 07:01:17 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Longstanding known issue I'm afraid. See: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata .../... Well, users are supposed to be able to find the installation guide and

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-20 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Still, we could maybe enhance the errata entry and mention this USB stick case as it's probably not obvious for someone installing with a USB stick that Disk devices may change on reboot could apply on his|her case (as it says On systems with

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Otavio Salvador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Yes; I agree that the errata text could be improved to be more clear for outsiders. Could you propose a text and we review it here in mailing list? Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer cvs diff

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-19 Thread debbug . lenny . grub
Package: installation-reports Boot method: USB memory stick with businesscard.iso + firmware.tar.gz Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso +

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments/Problems: It appears that the presence of an USB stick during GRUB install confuses GRUB about its whereabouts. I believe the contents of /boot/grub/device.map was something like this: /dev/sda (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0

Bug#506263: Installation report - grub failed when installing from hd-media

2008-11-19 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Longstanding known issue I'm afraid. See: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata .../... Well, users are supposed to be able to find the installation guide and hardcoding such stuff in the installer itself would make it less useful for