Re: Repeated failure of install of Jessie
On Wed 30 Mar 2016 at 11:17:29 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> I have read the guide online. It contains nothing that I did not
> know, or have not followed. It says nothing about un-explained
> failures.
>
> I have two further requests: 1. does anyone know how to proceed
> from the prompt 'grub>' There are all kinds of commands available
> from that point; will any lead me to the goal of getting a kernel
> to boot?
Possibly. However, I would try to repair what looks like a broken GRUB
installation.
Boot the installer in Rescue mode. Proceed until you get a screen
entitled "Enter rescue mode". Since you said / was on the fifth
partition you presumably choose /dev/sda5 as the device to use as
a root partition. From the next screen reinstall GRUB to /dev/sda.
That will do for the moment. How does it go?
> 2. What about Ubuntu? I can buy, or get a friend(not on campus here)
> to make a boot Ubuntu disk. Ubuntu is sort of in the Debian line, and
> can be made to support apt etc. Does it install without random
> crashes?
Would you say a bit more about these "random crashes" during the
install? What do they look like? Did you get a red screen? Was
there any message on the screen?
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