Bug#468668: Unable to start d-i after running win32-loader (empty GRUB)

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:11:51PM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> Package: win32-loader
> Version: 0.6.3
> Severity: normal
> 
> On a new laptop on which I never used win32-loader successfully before, I 
> succeeded to run win32-loader now that it works on Vista 64-bit (thank you), 
> but it failed once rebooting and trying to launch d-i. After selecting in 
> Windows' bootloader to run d-i, I get a GRUB 2 menu with no choices. A "first 
> choice" was selected, but there was no label and I only saw that it was 
> highlighted. I couldn't boot it.
> I can't remember what's supposed to happen after choosing to run d-i, so I 
> don't know whether I should see choices or whether it's abnormal that I see 
> GRUB.
> I don't know the actual win32-loader version I used, I'm putting 0.6.3 because 
> that's the current version and I downloaded debian.exe yesterday.
> This only happened on 1 machine once. Sorry to have no more clues, I'd be 
> happy to provide you more information if you need.

You said it only happens on one machine once;  does that mean if you repeat
the procedure it's no longer reproducible?

Is there a c:\grub.cfg file?  If so, please provide it.  Also, are you using
drive encryption or any unusual filesystem feature?

If you can reproduce it, what happens if you try:

  - Press 'c' to get a rescue GRUB shell
  - Run:  cat (hd0,1)/grub.cfg

does this correctly print the contents of c:\grub.cfg ?

Thanks

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Robert Millan

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