Jessie failed installation woes
I'm a long-time Debian user and this system (Wheezy) is result of at
least 3 dist-upgrades (as well as motherboard upgrades). Last
dist-upgrade was not completely successful, so I thought to do a new
install of Jessie, onto a second hard drive. Since the current
motherboard is AMD FX 64bit capable I tried a couple of AMD64 Live CDs
as tasters, since I had some trouble getting the onboard ethernet going
in Wheezy i686.
Live CDs find the MPC61 ethernet and get me onto the network.
Install DVDs find the MCP61 ethernet BUT can't get onto network.
After deciding to not configure the network, installation continued
until the reboot at the end - that hung the machine.
Installation was on second drive, and grub was installed to the MBR of
that drive. Restart dropped me into grub rescue mode with the message
about normal.mod not being found. After mounting the drive in Wheezy, I
find that the directory that normal.mod is supposed to be in, is not
there. There are only 2 files in /boot/grub - vastly different from the
grub 1.99 of Wheezy!
Note that I mentioned 'Install DVDs' above. I gave up on the AMD64 and
tried i686 flavour - same problem!
I have copied all files from the missing directory (found on install CD
& renamed the directory), and now trying to boot from that disc reboots
the machine!
I am thankful I kept the Jessie install away from the working Wheezy!
What can I do now?
Bruce
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Bruce Ward, Nelson, New Zealand
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