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Hello,
today I made a installation of Lenny rc1 from a USB key (using hd-media
and the lenny rc1 netinstaller iso on amd64).
I had the following drives:
/dev/sda => which was the USB key medium from which I installed Debian
/dev/cciss/c0d0 => a 250 GByte RAID 1
/dev/cciss/c0d1 => a 5 GByte RAID 5
I selected the manual partioning method and just touched dev/cciss/c0d0
with the following setup:
pt1: /boot - ext3 - bootable flag
pt2: swap - swap - nothing
pt3: / - ext3 - nothing special
The installation itself went fine and it also *seems* like grub
installed fine, but after rebooting the server everything went bad.
I found out that grub detects the following device.map:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/cciss/c0d0
(hd2) /dev/cciss/c0d1
And the installer so on installs grub to (hd0), with the following
consequences:
1. The USB key was not useable anymore, it has to be recreated
2. The installed system itself has not a bootloader
The only way to get this setup working was:
a) At the end of the installation switching to a vt
b) binding and chrooting
c) editing the device.map
d) re-run grub-install
e) editing the menu.lst of grub
First I want to discuss this behaviour before I report it as a bug - in
my eyes it is a RC one.
I think for such setups are two possible solutions, but I also think
both should be set up:
1) just install the bootloader to the "bootable" one partition
2) grub-install should also try to detect if the detected medium
(in this case dev/sda) is maybe the installation medium, and
so on this one should be completly ignored
I think the a) to b) steps could not be easily solved by non-experienced
users, because they have to detect the error, know how grub works and
they also have to be able to fix it.
What do you think?
Please CC me, I am not subscribed.
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