Re: [deb-installer] Failure at boot loader phase
Nicolas Will wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Beta 3 20040315
uname -a: <not on system now>
Date: 20040406
Method: CD burned from 100 MB CD image from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
Machine: Shuttle XPC SB75G2 v2 - Shuttle FB75 mainboard - Intel
875P/ICH5-R chipset - tg3 built-in network - Sony DRU-500A IDE DVD Burner
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 HyperThreading - 3 GHz - 512 KB cache - 800
MHz FSB - northwood core
Memory: 1 GB Dual channel ddr 400 - 2x OCZ 512 MB low latency modules
Root Device: S-ATA - 200 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM 9 mb cache
Root Size/partition table:
<not on system now>
hda1 - 170 GB NTFS - Windows XP
hda2 - 30 MB ext3 - /boot
hda6 - rest XFS - /
hda3 - 512 MB - swap
/boot 30 MB patition got moved in first position.
Output of lspci: <not on system now>
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Grub hanged during install on (0,1), but system not frozen (other
consoles working). i restarted the install process.
OK, so it finally worked, it just takes an awfuly long time, it says so
on the console, but I wasn't expecting it to be that long... Apparently
it is linked to the lack of floppy drive in my system.
That floppy drive thing.... On the first choice of hardware detection, I
unchecked the floppy part. But then later on during the intall (at least
in expert mode) it just inserts the module without asking...and makes
grub even longer...
lilo access difficult because expert mode expects things to be done in
order (Grub first...). I though i managed to get it (apparently it has
to use devfs nomenclature, which i'm not familiar with), bot nothing
in place, not even a lilo.conf.
That thing still stands. devfs is used, but without /dev/hdX aliases, so
lilo is confused.
reboot and mount/chroot under knoppix proved there was no lilo, tried
to use lilo's simple example conf file, changed compact to lba32, used
hda2 as boot and hda6 as root, boot sector on hda2.
used bootpart (as disk's main bootloader), but failed.
apparently lba48 support is needed in order to boot a partition
further than ~120 gb, maybe neither bootpart nor lilo know how to do
that.
I moved the /boot to the begining of the disk, it must have helped too.
[CUT]
Nico
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