Re: Debian Installer Installs to the Wrong HD
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 05:00:49PM -0600, Old Man wrote:
> I installed it based on hard drive letters/numbers I got from Slackware.
I suspect that is the problem. If you just chose sda because that is the
device you wanted under Slackware then you probably just chose the wrong
disk. Those /dev/sdX devices are lettered in the order that they are
registered by the drivers, and that depends on a lot of factors.
You can not expect the Debian default kernel used by the installer to
give disks the same letters as the kernel you are using on Slackware. In
your case, if the IDE driver gets initialized before the SATA driver,
your dev Slackware disk gets sda.
> And it only repartitioned my first drive, and formatted the last.
I still think you are mistaken about the repartitioning of the first
drive. If that were the case the filesystems there should be destroyed,
but you report that you can still see the broken Slackware install
afterwards.
> Also: How do I subscribe?
You could go to http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/ and subscribe
there, although this list is mostly about developing the Debian
installer and probably not that interesting to the average user.
--
Andreas Bombe
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