Re: Installation failed - and failed again...
On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 18:44:55 -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
> Regarding installing onto the USB hard drive...
>
> I booted from USB thumb drive, then tried to install from that (using
> its built-in Debian Installer) onto a USB hard drive. That also
> failed, same problem as when I attempted to install to a 2nd USB thumb
> drive: GRUB failed (automatically) and then LILO failed (manually
> selected). I aborted the installation.
>
> Unfortunately, the experiment failed. As I originally thought, the
> problem is not with flash structures, its with USB implementation. Or,
> at least, that's how it appears.
Appearences are deceptive. The fundamental cause of the problem and its
solution has nothing to do with USB.
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> Now I'm going to go back to attempting to install from USB flash stick
> to USB hard drive... (stay tuned to this channel).
Any chance of a sight of what syslog reports when GRUB fails to install?
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