Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Hans wrote:
> No one (except me) will install debian 9 on an IDE drive nowadays! 

That's not the point. IDE drives are still supported. But they appear
as /dev/sdN rather than as /dev/hdX.

IDE is well practiced, because the man pages of qemu-system-i386
and qemu-system-x86_64 say:

    The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:
    ...
     -   2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
    ...

I.e. all qemu -hda or -cdrom devices are handled by the kernel on
the virtual machine as IDE hardware.


The problem is with GRUB's refusal or failure to accept the disk in
the state it is.

What do you get as output if you run on the rescue system:

  fdisk -lu /dev/hda


Have a nice day :)

Thomas