Re: Trouble with installation
On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 16:28, Ronny Wikh wrote:
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> However, from there on it just won't budge. I've created a root, home,
> swap and usr partiion
> which get mounted on /target (verified in the terminal window) as they
> should, but the installer
> just fails to continue with a very non-informative "Installation of the
> base system failed" message.
> No matter what I do, even in desperation removing both software and
> hardware RAID (yes, and
> even moving the cables on the motherboard to the non-raid SATA slots)
> and using a single disk
> fails to go beyond this step. I'm considering giving up and installing
> a 32-bit system, but I'd really
> love to find a solution for the 64-bit system.
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated,
>
> - - Ronny Wikh
Probably a stab in the dark... but have you tried using LILO instead of
grub? I've always found LILO to be more reliable when installing Debian.
Simon
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