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Bug#500516: marked as done (Lenny distro of Linux magazine september 2008)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:18:34 +0000
with message-id <E1OtS2M-0002le-Ce@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #500516
has caused the Debian Bug report #500516,
regarding Lenny distro of Linux magazine september 2008
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
Date: <Date and time of the install>

Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
Processor:
Memory:
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [E ]
Detect network card:    [OK ]
Configure network:      [OK ]
Detect CD:              [OK ]
Load installer modules: [OK ]
Detect hard drives:     [OK ]
Partition hard drives:  [OK ]
Install base system:    [OK ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [OK ]
User/password setup:    [OK ]
Install tasks:          [OK ]
Install boot loader:    [E ]
Overall install:        [E ]

Comments/Problems: 
Problem 1:

GRUB 2.0 wasn't properly configured : the correct boot drive wasn't correct 
calculated. When it wasn't HD0 it was wrong and this with many different 
installations. When correcting the map with the drives Lenny booted up 
correctly. 
The devicemap was wrong and did not contained all drives and in wrong order.

1 tested system was with SCSI card + IDE drives
1 tested system with SATA drive and IDE DVD/CDROM
1 other system with mixed sata, scsi and ide drives

On all systems the debian wasn't installed on the first drive but on the last 
drive. 

PROBLEM 2:

But then had problems with the X-window system to obtain the correct vertical 
refresh rate. It seems the values of the monitor weren't correctly taken. it 
rendered an useless screen. 
When manually the correct refresh value and monitor values were introduced it 
booted perfect in KDE/GNOME.

 

This DVD on contained errors who were also present on previous releases of 
GRUB. I do not understand why this hasn't been corrected/investigated. This 
ruins existing Microsoft or Linux installations on the same computer. They 
wouldn't even startup anymore due to the fact that their bootrecord was 
overwritten.  (HD(0,0)) although another section was selected to write the 
bootrecord too. (HD3,0) or (HD3,2).
Only on the hd(0,0) was installation in booting succesfull. 

mvg,


Patrick Op de Beeck
Drabstraat 40
B-2640 Mortsel
Europe

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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