Re: Installation instructions.

[peter@easthope.ca]

> I give their md5sums below so you can check we are using the same
> files.

Thanks.  Well, the iso file simply wasn't present.  Now I have this.

root@joule:/mnt# md5sum !$
md5sum {d*,i*,v*}
f327723426dc90a4daaf1609595d8306  debian-10.6.0-i386-netinst.iso
d3f41e1b683fa87cca189f8595b80a7c  initrd.gz
b30966bc534a606bb8dafab40e106ca9  vmlinuz

> $ md5sum *iso
> f327723426dc90a4daaf1609595d8306  debian-10.6.0-i386-netinst.iso
> $ md5sum *
> d3f41e1b683fa87cca189f8595b80a7c  initrd.gz
> b30966bc534a606bb8dafab40e106ca9  vmlinuz

Files match but the search still failed.

> I suggest to check the installer log just after the search fails.
> The method of doing that is here:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s03.en.html#di-miscellaneous

http://easthope.ca/FailedBootVrtConsole4.jpg

Apologies for the snapshot but it serves the purpose.

To me, the most relevant notes are "missing firmware" and "devices found: ''".
An old magnetic HDD should be detected by a driver without fancy firmware. 

That leaves "devices found: ''" while files are in (hd0,msdos7).  Does 
the search algorithm work for an extended part?  Ref. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning#Extended_partition

Depending on replies, I might try the files in (hd1,1).

Thx,                                 ... P.



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