Bug#738267: installation-reports: Include easier way to unistall previous installations of debian and remove it from GRUB menu.
On 12.02.2014 12:07, Andrew Louis wrote:
yes the old installation exists, it shows on the grub menu. i wasnt
anticipating an answer, sorry for my delayed response. i installed it on
the same partition, yes. The older setup does not open up. it gets stuck
at a login screen where the display goes blank. the new installation works.
Hi Andrew,
please keep the bug report 738267@bugs.debian.org in CC, so that all
relevant information gets collected in one place [1].
Now I am rather confused about what happened on your machine, so let me
try to summarize:
* You had a problem with your old installation and decided to make a
new installation.
* You selected some partition for the new installation, but I don't
know, which of the following:
- a newly created empty partition
- the same partition as the old installation
In the first case the old installation still exists and should
appear in the GRUB menu, while in the second case, the old
installation got overridden by the new installation and should not
show up in the GRUB menu. From your answer above, I can't determine,
which is the case.
Could you please clarify?
It would help, if you could send the output of the following commands
executed in a terminal:
sudo blkid
sudo update-grub
Could you please attach the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg as well?
Best regards,
Andreas
1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738267
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