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Bug#596762: installation-reports: installer failed to add winXP to grub2



(answering to the bug report and leaving your full answer so that it's
recorded....as your answer was only a private message to me)

Quoting sdfsdfsdf ewfwdfsdf (spamfang1199@yahoo.de):
> I have used the snapshot from today (2010/09/14).
> 
> 1. Grub2 still did not include my winXP partition to the menuentries.

Please provide the full installation log (you'll find it in
/var/log/debian-installer on the installed system).



> 
> 2. The grub-question-loop (see above) did not happen again. BUT this may be due to the fact, that i had not the prior grub version installed anymore, but already grub2. 
> 
> 
> > Could you use a daily build of the installer? At this step
> > of the
> > squeeze development, we no longer recommend using alpha1
> > releases.
> > 
> > GRUB issues, particularly, should be tested with latest
> > releases.
> > 
> > You can find daily builds from
> > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. Please
> > preferrably
> > choose the *netboot* image (not netinst). Despite its name,
> > it is not
> > reserved for people who use network boot servers. It is
> > indeed just an
> > "as minimal as possible" image that downloads components
> > off the
> > network as soon as the network is up and running in D-I.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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