Re: Bug#339705: installation-reports
> After presumably installing grub in the MBR and rebooting, the screen
> became almost unreadable, and after a few messages the boot process
> stopped. I was able to boot into the system using a grub floppy and
> then the rest of the installation seem to run OK. After the
> installation was finished, I ran grub-install manually and rebooted
> from the hard disk. I had the same problem. Then I rebooted from the
> grub floppy into my old redHat 7.2. I checked the boot partition,
> shared between both systems and the grub configuration file grub.conf
> was left unmodified. After I added the new kernel and root partition I
> was able to boot into debian from the HD. I tried once again to
> grub-install and again my system became unbootable from the HD. Thus,
> I finally booted from the floppy into RedHat, grub-install'ed and
> verified that both Debian and RedHat remained bootable from the HD. It
> worries me that I plan on removing RedHat, but I run the risk of
> leaving my machine unbootable from the HD if I try to reinstall
> Debian.
In such a situtation I would probably recommend using the "Don't
install bootloader" option in D-I main menu, then set things manually
later....
You probably need to use the medium priority for your install: "linux
DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium" at boot prompt.
We still seem to have an issue there but I highly suspect that you
attempt to use a common /boot partition for both installs is the
initial reason for the problems. I suspect you asked D-I to *keep* the
existing /boot and got a mix of different GRUB versions trying to boot
your new system.
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