Re: debian-sarge grub install
Probably should not say this on this list but if this is your first
debian install it may be better to try lilo or even use the old
installer. This installer is still being developed (of course it is
great that you are helping 'test' it). Debian is a little more difficult
to install than some other distros but it is well worth it when you get
a system up and running.
I often use the bf2.4 (with old installer) kernel and after the reboot
modprobe the network card and put it into /etc/modules.
I then let the installer add the apt sources and after basic install
(if I wanted sarge) change all occurrence of stable to sarge in
sources.list (this can be done in another console).
In fact as soon as I have the network up and changed sources.list I do
a apt-get update/upgrade/dist-upgrade in another console so the rest of
the install uses sarge.
Ben
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>>> "Takis Diakoumis" <takisd@alphalink.com.au> 04/19/04 02:55pm >>>
Hi
i'm having quite the problem with grub and booting into my system.
i am installing debian-sarge (27032004 release) and can't seem to get
beyond the first reboot.
when i do reboot all i get is GRUB GRUB GRUB... all over the screen
repeating infinitely so it appears to be a problem with the boot loader
and
its installation in the MBR (?).
the HD setup is as follows:
hda - 120GB drive (/)
hdb - 20GB drive (/backup)
hdc - 80GB drive (/home)
i have tried different combinations including separate /boot partitions
-
all to no avail.
grub is installed on hda.
previously i had redhat9, mandrake9.2 and suse9 on this machine
(individually - not mutli-boot). all of these worked fine (i've been
weaning myself onto debian). only now when i installed debian is it
causing
problems.
i also installed the same debian distro on another machine and didn't
have
problems - so it must be the combination of this machine and
debian-sarge.
i have checked the bios and it is booting into the correct drive.
i remembered a suse install bootdisk i created had a boot from hd
option so
i used this selecting boot from hd and only then did i get the grub
menu
-sequence was: boot disk -> select boot from hd -> grub menu.
ok, so now at a command prompt. i reinstalled grub on the mbr using:
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
the above said it was successful. but it still didn't boot and came up
with
the same GRUB all over the screen.
i then cleared the MBR completely scrubbing it with zeros and then
reinstalling grub on the machine and the MBR. still no go.
i searched the web for similar issues and found a few. most seemed to
be
related to bios LBA settings. the bios was set to autodetect the drives
and
always defaulted to LBA anyway. i did force LBA on it through the bios
-
this didn't help either.
i also tried installing grub with setup --force-lba (hd0) but this too
didn't work.
i'm stumped!! it worked fine for other distros - now its stuffed and
all i
get is GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB all over my screen over and over.
i have checked /boot/grub contents and all images/files are there and
look
ok.
if anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it. i'm getting
desparate
here. i'm determined to have a debian box up and running!!
any suggestions at all....
thanks heaps...
Takis
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