Bug#265912: installation report
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:47:19AM +0100, Joey Hess wrote:
> Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > I have an IDE and a SCSI harddisk in my system. I wiped out the SCSI disk and
> > installed Debian there. When the boot loader was installed, it wrote the
> > boot block on the IDE disk, not giving me any chance to write to the SCSI disk
> > instead. Maybe this is the right thing, the machine boots, since it tried to
> > boot from IDE first, but since Debian is installed on the SCSI disk, it would
> > be nice to have the option to install grub on the SCSI disk, in case I remove
> > the IDE disk or change the boot order.
>
> When the installer says "it should be safe to install the GRUB boot
> loader to the master boot record of your first hard drive." and asks
> "Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?" it's referring
> to the first hard drive found by the bios, which is the one that
> generally boots. If you don't want to install to that drive, you answer
> "No" to this question, and go on to specify the drive you do want.
Oh, I seem to have missed that. By now I found out that grub is configured
in /boot/grub, I just haven't seen any way to tell grub to install the MBR
in /dev/sda, when I change the boot order in the BIOS, it obviously fails
LI...
But I guess this is not really a d-i problem anymore.
> > I can not mount the CD-Rom. mount /cdrom can not find /cdrom. /media/cdrom
> > does not work either, /media/cdrom0 say the mount point does not exist.
> > /media/cdrom is a link to cdrom0, but this does not exist, which is what
> > gnome tells me when I try to mount the CD-Rom from gnome.
>
> I don't understand how this could happen, since the code that creates
> /media/cdrom0 is right after the code that creates the /media/cdrom
> link.
Sorry, no idea, thats how it looks on my box. Maybe d-i expected a SCSI
CD-Rom, while I currently only have an IDE CD-Rom?
I've been trying to setup SElinux with little luck on this box, so maybe
I'll have to use d-i again when it's screwed up completely. Anything I could
test wrt the media/cdrom issue?
Christian
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