Bug#557605: closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (reply to 557605@bugs.debian.org) (Re: Bug#557605: installation-reports: grub2 installation failure)

["Braslau & Rachline" <braslau@free.fr>]

On Monday 23 November 2009 12:27:04 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the installation-reports package:
> 
> #557605: installation-reports: grub2 installation failure
> 
> It has been closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (reply to
>  557605@bugs.debian.org).
> 
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
> better one in a separate message then please contact Frans Pop
>  <elendil@planet.nl> (reply to 557605@bugs.debian.org) by replying to this
>  email.
> 

> > Debian 5.0.3 businesscard install with unstable/sid.
> 
> This explains all of the issues you saw. The stable installer is not 
> guaranteed to be compatible with testing/unstable.
> 
> You should use the installer for Squeeze [1] if you want to install testing 
> or unstable.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP

Thank you for your attention.

I had first tried the daily build of the debian installer
and it failed as well, which explains why I then tried the
5.0.3 (stable) installer.

Secondly, the stable installer proposes the choice
of stable, testing or unstable installations.
It shouldn't fail so badly.

I know that "unstable" is, well, unstable;
So please use this bug report as you feel useful
(as I now have a cleanly installed, working system).

Sincerely,

Alan

P.S. I took advantage of the occasion of installing debian
on this older machine to try kfreebsd-386 using the debian installer,
daily build. The installation process proceeded more or less correctly,
but hung on the step installing packages. I was able to proceed by killing
aptitute.  The rest of the installation, including the grub installation
terminated correctly. However, I was unable to boot this system
even manually, getting the dreadfull grub disk error message.
So I gave up and fell-back installing linux, for now...