Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 05:25:20PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
> On 2013/3/1 3:55 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:39:19PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
> >>13 - Removed hard disk.
> >>14 - Booted Debian-LXDE on 1-GB USB.
> >>14.1 - Created 2.5-GB /, 0.5-GB swap, and 5.0-GB /windows (FAT-32).
> >>14.2 - Attempted install to the 8-GB USB (newly partitioned).
> >>14.3 - Install succeeded!
> >>14.4 - Automatic GRUB install failed!
> >
> >I would try this:
> >
> >Answer "no" to the question about installing GRUB to the MBR.
>
> I wasn't asked. It did that automatically.
>
This site has a screenshot near the bottom of the page. It says
"Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record?"
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-squeeze-debian-6.0-with-bind-dovecot-and-nginx-ispconfig-3-p2
If your installer is not asking you that, I'm not sure why. Are you
using the graphical installer? Maybe it asks different questions (which
I would think would be a bug).
> >The next screen should give you some additional options about where to install GRUB.
>
> The 'next' screen merely showed the error. I'm not sure, but I think the screen after that (i.e., after I clicked "Continue") was the main menu from which I selected LILO.
>
> >You want to install it to the 8 GB usb stick, which may be
> >/dev/sdb -- but you should make sure.
>
> Really? Are you saying that at that point the USB thumb drive has a mount point? I don't think so, but what the hell do I know. Even if it has a mount point, I wouldn't know what to do.
>
/dev/sdb is not a mount point. It is just a file representing a device.
In this case, the second hard disc -- which is how Linux sees USB
sticks.
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