Hi Jonathan! On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:26:12 +0100, Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > Boot method: Unetbootin USB image > Image version: Default testing image for Unetbootin I did not know at all 'Unetbootin', but given that the Debian Installer is available as a USB image as well, this latter is the preferred method... > On installation over Win7 grub2 failed to install and system would only boot > to Windows. ...which can be run even *from* Windows. > After removing Windows and re-installing Squeeze, system would > only boot with installer USB attached. Running grub-install /dev/sda fixed > the problem. Anyway, please do not hijack thread, you have experienced two bugs that have nothing to do with mine, with a minor exception for the first one where for both of us GRUB-2 failed to install, but I guess in two *completely different* situations (you provided are very few information about the installation steps...). And actually, the second bug you have experienced has already been reported three times, now merged: http://bugs.debian.org/568529 http://bugs.debian.org/579519 http://bugs.debian.org/589823 FWIW, I tried both on QEMU and on my real IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad X60 and GRUB-2 cleanly installed itself on the internal HD and not on the USB stick, I will send shortly another mail to the bug above. For this reason, I do not think it is worth to duplicate Jonathan's first bug as new, given that it is mostly impossible to reproduce it without further information. On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:46:14 +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > it failed with the installer: > > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install -- > no-floppy --force "/dev/sda" > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: no such disk. > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed. > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: Please specify the module with the option `-- > modules' explicitly. > Oct 17 16:36:41 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy -- > force "/dev/sda"' failed. > Oct 17 16:36:53 main-menu[387]: (process:19453): File descriptor 3 (pipe: > [2326]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 19490: /bin/sh > > ...but worked when you run grub-install /dev/sda Miguel, please re-read the full bug: you replied to Jonathan (and not the original submitter, i.e. me) including an excerpt of my log, which is obviously wrong. In my situation manually running `grub-install [...]` failed as well. And please do not top post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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