Bug#685308: Installation report Wheezy Beta 1
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?>
CD
Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best>
Wheezy release Beta 1 AMD64 Netinst
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install>
August 18 and August 19, several attempts
Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)>
Lenovo IdeaCentre K210
Processor: Intel Dual Core Pentium E5200
Memory: 4G
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Partition 1: Windows Vista (620 GB)
Partition 2: free space (19 GB)
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): not available
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O]
Detect network card: [O]
Configure network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Clock/timezone setup: [O]
User/password setup: [O]
Install tasks: [O]
Install boot loader: [E]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
I tried several attempts, with different partitioning.
In each case, I preserved partition 1, which held a Windows Vista partition.
The free space was either partitioned into a swap and a root partition, or
was used as an encrypted partition with LVM holding a swap and root logical
volume. I also tried several choices about what partitions were bootable.
I didn't really know what this should have been, which may well have been
part of the problem. One of the choices I tried was to let the installer
automatically partition the free space.
For all of these choices, when I got to the Grub screen, the installer
did not recognize the Vista installation. Eventually, I went ahead anyway
and let grub install. But the installation to the MBR got a fatal error,
and trying to let grub install elsewhere eventually got my system pretty
messed up. Telling grub to install at /dev/sda2 finally did it in and its
not bootable now. Next step will be to try a clean install to the entire
drive, overwriting the Vista.
As a second oddity, once when I was at the Popularity Contest screen,
I hit the Go Back button. This was a mistake, as it locked up the installation
and I eventually had to restart the machine and installation to unfreeze it.
Thanks for all the great work you people do. I hope this report helps make
Debian a bit better.
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