MSI K8N Neo Platinum Installation Report & GRUB/LILO troubles

[Ricardo Diz <ricardo.diz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Only this weekend did I have the chance to try again and install
debian on my computer. It didn't went very well, as I kept having
errors from time to time while reading from burned install isos (It
also happened last time). I thought they were related to my particular
reader (DVD NEC 3520A), but it kept happening once I switched to an
older one. I had to try several times so I could install anything.

> Huam. At the time of installing, I used P-ATA disks. S-ATA is working
> here, but I installed a newer kernel somewhen.

I burned a Ubuntu iso (that detects my disks), and went on to install
debian chrooting.

> >installed me the base system. So far so good (kind of :P ). My main
> >(unsolved) problems began when I tried to to install GRUB.
> >
> >
> Yeees. I've had that troubles too. grub-install and "setup" from the
> grub shell does mostly a segfault.
> Booting with grub worked at my side, but with a scrambled boot-screen.
> I used a normal (IA32) grub install to get a working grub installation.

Is it possible to install a IA32 compiled grub in my debian-64 disk
using apt-get? I did tried to install Ubuntu on my other disk just for
grub, but because of the read errors it ended failing everytime.

During this week, I'll try to install i386 Knoppix, to see if I can
finally get a working grub!

Thanks for the replies,

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Ricardo Diz