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 ? [...] > Just one question: in the installer , when I choose install MBR on > partition it doesn't show me a list of partitions (WHY GOD WHY?) , > instead one has to type the /dev/sdaX of the partition. How can I > know the /dev/sdaX address of the / partition of debian? It would make a good whishlist bug to ask for a list of drives/partitions/labels to be shown. As a workaround switch to one of the consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F2), press Enter to activate it and run 'blkid'. Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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