Bug#800111: marked as done (Unsuccessful GRUB installation 8.2.0)

To: Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>

Subject: Bug#800111: marked as done (Unsuccessful GRUB installation 8.2.0)

From: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org>

Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:52:12 +0000

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Your message dated Thu, 6 Aug 2020 09:48:07 +0200 with message-id <[🔎] 20200806094807.1966cbbb91ce0f9e1b2dbf22@mailbox.org> and subject line Re: Mass-closing old installation-report bugs --- round 3 has caused the Debian Bug report #800111, regarding Unsuccessful GRUB installation 8.2.0 to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 800111: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800111 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems

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To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Unsuccessful GRUB installation 8.2.0
From: Greg Jung <gvjung@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:18:17 -0700
Message-id: <CAAAui1FD5M2iPh07gg02xub4C19z=YbQu9yvimKXMtPacDbMLA@mail.gmail.com>

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: DVD-1 os "jesse" (Debian 8.2.0 i386

Image version: debian-8.2.0-DVD-1 (bittorrent)

Date: 2015-09-27

Machine: Dell Dimension 4550

Processor: Pentium 4

Memory: 2 Gb

in dos terminology:

Partitions: Disk1: 100 GBytes, C:, and D: primary partitions (/dev/sda) NTFS

Disk2: 240 Gbytes, E: primary NTFS

Dos extended: 200 Gbytes

sdb5 F: logical NTFS

sdb6 2GB swap

sdb7 160 Gb for linux

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): N/A

Base System Installation Checklist:

[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot: [ ]

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: [ ]

Install boot loader: [ E]

Overall install: [ E]

Comments/Problems:

Hardware has two IDE drives, a breathing XP system occupies first drive

with two partitions and more NTFS partitions on second drive, with room at the

back for linux. >From Windows, the DVD installed the win32-loader

and then proceeded to install, normal install (I've done several on similar

situations wrt disks). Reassured that I could write to Master Boot Record

for GRUB, which I agreed to. The reboot could not occur:

" error no such device -e5f573e4-<more hex>-<more hex>-<yet more hex>"

grub-rescue>

I tried a few times with recueCD, did 'grub-install /dev/sda' got complaints.

All attempts to fix to no avail, had to get windows recovery console

and "fixmbr" worked (but gave me dire warnings of possible bad consequences).

Upon reboot, the windows multi-boot gives me the two options, the windows system is

ok as before but the debian system seems to be back in the initial state,

without keyboard map, etc. I was going to have to enter the basic information,

even though the install went through almost entirely (yet not enough to have an /sbin/init

for when I tried to start it directly from RescueCD).

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