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Bug#593460: Squeeze installation report



Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD - netinst
Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
Date: 18/Aug/2010 11:00BST

Machine: Dell Latitude D810 laptop
Processor: Intel P4
Memory: 2GB
Partitions: installing to /dev/sda3, swap on /dev/sda2. /dev/sda1 is Windows; /dev/sda5 is Ubuntu

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O] Manual
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O] Eventually
Overall install:        [O] Eventually

Comments/Problems:

I chose Grub2, it said "You chose not to install Grub to any devices" before giving me a chance to make any such choice. <Go Back> just brings up the same message. <No> in response to "Continue without installing Grub" does the same. Then when I answered <Yes> it found the existing OSes and offered to include them in the Grub setup.

Installation completed and rebooted, giving a pretty Grub 2 screen with my new Debian system, but no mention of the previously installed OSes.

I had to run os-prober and update-grub manually to get access to the existing OSes, but after that it was fine.

cheers

Chris

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