Bug#416182: marked as done (d-i: installation on installed systems)
Your message dated Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:25:24 +0200
with message-id <200703251925.24868.elendil@planet.nl>
and subject line d-i: installation on installed systems
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
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Package: installation-guide-i386
Severity: important
grub-install chokes in /etc/mtab if there is a disk label.
After some research, something suggested I cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab.
I think this is where the problem was introduced first for me. There
was an existing FC4 install with /boot on /dev/sda1 root on /dev/sda3
and swap on /dev/sda2. I stole the swap for debian, because it was 2G,
and has just enough to work with durring the transition.
www:~# grub-install /dev/sda
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
www:~# grep LABEL /etc/mtab
LABEL=debian / ext3 rw 0 0
www:~# grub-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/sda
www:~# grep " / " /etc/mtab
/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
Maybe stat(2) might be helpful for that instead?
Thanks.
Scott Edwards
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Geert Stappers wrote:
> clone 416113 -1
> reassign 416113 -1
> retitle -1 d-i: installation on installed systems
> severity -1 wishlist
>
> Early version of debian-installer did run on the development machines.
> It would be cool if that feature would be re-established.
I have no idea what you mean by "development machines" and anyway, this BR
had absolutely nothing to do with D-I itself. Therefore closing.
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