Re: Installation Debian 3.1
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:30:13AM +0100, Philippe Labio wrote:
> First of all thanks for your reply. And my aplogizes for my language! It
> was late and I was angry!
>
> I just tried your Etch Beta1. I got the following error: Failed to load
> installer component. Loading Libc6-udeb failed for unknown reasons -
> Aborting.
>
> When installing from the 2 Debian DVDs, Debian sees the following:
> IDE1 (slave) All or part of it (16 GB)
What device is master there? IDE devices may _not_ be set to slave with
no master. It violates the specifications for IDE and often doesn't
work reliably.
> IDE5 Master - 1 partition of 20GB with XP Pro os and 1 partiton of 56GB for
> windows data.
> IDE6 Master - 35 GB for windows data - mainly audio and video.
This is likely what confused it. It loaded the normal ide first and
figured that was the primary boot device, while your system probably
boots with IDE5 as the first disk. Explictly telling grub to install to
the MBR of IDE5 and editing it's device.map file to tell it that hde is
hd0, and hda is hd2 or whichever it works out to would probably help
things. It will take manual setup of grub's device map to inform it
that your system has disks not in standard order.
Another option is to change the bios to boot from the primary ide
controller with the debian disk as hda (it should be master after all).
Then install debian with grub there, and add an entry for windows to
grub that remaps the disks around before booting the windows boot
loader.
> IDE5 is my XP disk
> IDE6 is windows data disk
>
> I select IDE1 hdb all and leave Debian to do the partioning.
>
> It installs all correctly and at reboot, XP pro only starts up.
>
> Regatding the re-installation of XP, I am XP administrator.
The repair boot loader option that the installer has generally works
just fine. It would have been good to try at least.
Len Sorensen
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