Martin_J Carter wrote: > Tried again the other day. Here's the highlights: > > * Installed M$-XPpro from scratch on newly-flattened HD, into > /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5, just enough to be able to boot it. > > * Used netinst (pre-RC2) from a CD; went for linux26 (for minimal > interaction). > > * Partitioning: multi-user. > > * Put grub in the MBR. > > * Proceed to reboot: Bliss :-) . In particular, both XP and sarge > accessible by grub. > > Apologies for the distinct lack of system info: the system in question > is the one I boot XP on to use this wretched alleged mailer, but using > a different /dev/hda with the aid of a removable-HD tray. In > retrospect, I should perhaps have given it the stricter test of using a > completely virgin HD. Do you wish me to retry and/or send the full info? > > In the meantime, I think Bug 253161 can be (tenatively) Closed. I don't know, I've seen the kind of grub hang you described originally sometimes on systems with a very large root partition. Such a hang is not always reproducible. We can probably close the installation report since it works for you. -- see shy jo
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