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Bug#248800: marked as done (installer beta 4 installation report (mbr damaged, grub misdetection, cannot boot from rescue disk))

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:37 +0000
with message-id <E1OtBnx-0005yi-7h@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #248800
has caused the Debian Bug report #248800,
regarding installer beta 4 installation report (mbr damaged, grub misdetection, cannot boot from rescue disk)
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/beta4/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
uname -a: unable to boot installed system. installer: Linux (none) 2.4.25-1-386 #2 (date) i686 unknown
Date: 2004-05-12
Method: boot and install off cd.

Machine: Sony PCG-GR270P 
Processor: "Intel Pentium III Mobile CPU 1000MHz stepping 01"
Memory: 256MB
Root Device: IDE, hda3
Root Size/partition table:
hda1 - primary - 4.1 GB  - ntfs (XP media center, marked as bootable before install)
hda2 - primary - ~256 MB - swap
hda3 - primary - ~6 GB   - reiserfs (root)

Output of lspci: 
(I'll post another installation report with the data, once I can cut and paste)

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Reboot:                 [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:
Partitioning -- Not really an error, but I found it difficult to "discover" 
how to create a swap partition. It would be easier to find if the actions 
available were all shown in a list.

Install boot loader and reboot:
Grub came up by default. Due to the detection issue with NTFS (listed in the errata) 
it didn't see my XP partition. I told it not to clobber the MBR. It asked for an 
alternate place to put the boot loader, and I tried to install it to /dev/hda3. 
This failed and I saw several error messages. I tried to continue, but was unable to
boot off the rescue disk (linux root=/dev/hda3). I don't know if this was due to my
unfamiliarity with devfs or if it represents a real issue. (regardless, a less
experienced user will not have a great time with it either)

As an added bonus, it looks like the MBR was stomped. XP won't boot off the HD any more. 
I'll attempt to repair the MBR with the XP rescue disk.

Wishlist:

I have never tried multibooting with XP and linux before. This is probably a very
common scenario, so it would be a very good thing for it to be automatically configured
(or at least automatically detected with good HOWTO instructions).

I'll file another report when I manage to get to stage2.

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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