Re: I don't know if this is the right list for this issue, but...
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Hello Everyone,
I have been trying to install Etch using a variety of methods for some
time now - always a full clean install. Almost everything goes fine
until it comes time to "Finish the Installation". The part that does
not go fine is that, sometime during the install process it marks the
first partition of my second hard drive as bootable (my user home
directory partition), and I believe that it unmarks my root directory as
non-bootable.
So, Lilo won't install to the proper MBR, though Grub will. So I choose
to use Grub. Then follow the steps to the Finish stage. When I select
that, the little progress window flashes on the screen so fast I can
barely see it, and it does NOT finish the installation.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas - either on what I can do to get
it up and running, or on which list I should post this to.
Regards,
Chris
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Chris, I'm no expert by any stretch. I think the process you describe is somewhat
normal. In my experience, you should boot from the first partition "/" for lilo to
work but I could be wrong. It looks like many posts are not being replied to so,
you may not get a response and have to repost when everyone is more active. I have
two unanswered posts myself. I don't know your expertize but the boot loader has to
find your kernel and boot info which usually are in / and /boot directories. If you
are using CD's to install etch, I would just follow the default selections and everything
should work. That's the only installation experience I have installing debian. The usual
deb setup has partitions for /. /var, /usr, /home, /tmp and the kernel and boot files are
located in the "/" and /boot directories in the / partition. I'm not real clear on what you
are trying to do; sounds like you are trying to boot from your home directory. this may be
possible but I've never seen it or heard about it. Sometimes the deb people wont respond to
a question that's not clear on just what's wrong. Hope this is of some help.
Leonard Chatagnier
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