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Bug#412167: marked as done (debian-installer: Rescue mode: install GRUB to floppy doesn't work)

Your message dated Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:37:47 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #412167,
regarding debian-installer: Rescue mode: install GRUB to floppy doesn't work
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal


(This is from memory, please forgive minor errors in naming etc.)
Booting the net-inst CD in rescue mode and installing GRUB to (fd0) 
produces a floppy which on booting gave me a 'geom error'.
  From the amount of copying done (I later used grub-floppy to create a 
disk, which worked well), not all of the stage files were copied onto it.

Some details which may be important:
(hd0): SCSI drive with GRUB boot block in MBR and a single NTFS 
partition
(hd1): Newly installed S-ATA drive with single NTFS partition
(hd2), shifted up from (hd1): Old P-ATA drive with several partitions, 
including ext3 root (containing /boot/grub/*stage* files) and swap.

Scenario:
I was trying to fix my system, which had become unbootable after I had 
installed an S-ATA controller and drive. Apparently this caused my 
drive numbers (hd1 and up) to shift up.
First, I tried to install GRUB onto (hd0), which failed, probably 
because GRUB had no place to write its stage files, and I saw no way to tell 
it where to do so.
Next I tried to write GRUB to a boot floppy, which wouldn't boot. 
Eventually I managed to enter a chroot from which I executed 
grub-floppy, which made a usable floppy.

--
Alain Kalker

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Floppies disks are not supported anymore so i am closing this report.
I suggest you to try latest debian installer's (squeeze rc2) rescue mode
any issues you experience.

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_rc2/

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Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org

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