Re: Problem installing on nforce4 amd...

[A E Lawrence <A.E.Lawrence@lboro.ac.uk>]

Lars Schimmer wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I got the debian 64bit netinstaller from 10 of april 2005 yesterday and 
> tried to
> install.
> I took the sid installer, btw.
> But it couldn't install lilo or grub on my SATA HD on the asus A8NV nforce4
> board. And without a bootloader linux won't start...

This is likely to be a disc enumeration problem. Look in the archives 
for similar reports and a solution.

Are you quite sure that you told the installer to write to the right 
hard disc/partition? The installer and the installed system may disagree 
about the identity of root.

ael