On Vi, 08 iul 11, 08:55:08, nikhil jain wrote:
I think I know why it made my system unbootable. grub wasn't
installed to the correct partition. Not my mistake, how am I
supposed to know the drive letter of a non-existing partition ?
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Just one question: in the installer , when I
I don't know if its just my screwed up system or debian, but this has
happened twice now.
Installed debian once with the w32 installer and once with the normal
installer. Both times I chose not to install the MBR. Upon rebooting I
found my system unbootable. To fix it I had to boot
Your subject is pretty much correct. When grub (I'm assuming you have
grub installed) is not installed into the MBR, the installer marks the
boot partition (well, the one where you did install grub) as active
because it will not load otherwise.
But that should not make your system
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:
How can I know the /dev/sdaX address of the / partition of debian?
You were asked by the installer to to select the partitions and their
mountpoint(s) a few minutes before you were asked about installing Grub.
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On Friday 08 July 2011 10:30:49 am Mahesh T Pai wrote:
nikhil jain nik.j...@gmail.com writes:
How can I know the /dev/sdaX address of the / partition of debian?
You were asked by the installer to to select the partitions and their
mountpoint(s) a few minutes before you were asked about
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