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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: debian-installer: Rescue mode: install GRUB to floppy doesn't work
- From: Alain Kalker <miki@dds.nl>
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:32:24 +0100
- Message-id: <20070224063224.4197.66515.reportbug@localhost>
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
(This is from memory, please forgive minor errors in naming etc.)
Booting the net-inst CD in rescue mode and installing GRUB to (fd0)
produces a floppy which on booting gave me a 'geom error'.
From the amount of copying done (I later used grub-floppy to create a
disk, which worked well), not all of the stage files were copied onto it.
Some details which may be important:
(hd0): SCSI drive with GRUB boot block in MBR and a single NTFS
partition
(hd1): Newly installed S-ATA drive with single NTFS partition
(hd2), shifted up from (hd1): Old P-ATA drive with several partitions,
including ext3 root (containing /boot/grub/*stage* files) and swap.
Scenario:
I was trying to fix my system, which had become unbootable after I had
installed an S-ATA controller and drive. Apparently this caused my
drive numbers (hd1 and up) to shift up.
First, I tried to install GRUB onto (hd0), which failed, probably
because GRUB had no place to write its stage files, and I saw no way to tell
it where to do so.
Next I tried to write GRUB to a boot floppy, which wouldn't boot.
Eventually I managed to enter a chroot from which I executed
grub-floppy, which made a usable floppy.
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Alain Kalker
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