I reinstalled the machine using the instructions from http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s03.html#usb-copy-flexible This causes the usb stick known as /dev/sda the laptop disk is known as /dev/sdb At the end the installtion process writes the boot sector to /dev/sda (which is in this case the installtion media. The installation files from http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer- i386/current/images/netboot/ I used are from Jan-17. Thanks, Rainer Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2011 schrieben Sie: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the grub-installer package: > > #605562: installation-reports: USB Memory Stick Booting wrote Bootsector on > USB Stick > > It has been closed by Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>. > > 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 Otavio Salvador > <otavio@ossystems.com.br> by replying to this email. -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: rdorsch@web.de jabber: rdorsch@jabber.org GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
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