Bug#550902: bug installing debian 5.03 - perhaps related to grub

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 05:40 -0700 schrieb jeffunit:
> > > I installed debian 5.03 on my computer, using the dvd image.
> > > The install seemed to go fine.
> > > When I rebooted, I got a grub message about with an error like
> > > 'error 15'. I did not get to the grub boot menu.
> >
> >It would have been better if you filed a normal installation-report:
> >http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html.en#problem-report
> 
> That is clearly a better way to report issues, however I couldn't find that,
> looking at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

Yeah it's AFAIK only in the installation-howto.

> >But I close now the report, instead of just reassigning to
> >grub-installer, where this would belong to, because we switched now to
> >GRUB 2 by default.
> >I doubt it has the same problem.
> >
> >You could try out the daily images or wait until alpha 1 gets released
> >and then try again.
> >If it still has problems booting your installed system, then please file
> >a regular installation-report with attaching the compressed syslog of
> >the installer.
> >Even if you can't directly boot your system, you can still get the logs
> >from a usual LiveCD or even debian-installer's rescue mode.
> >I think they're in /var/log/installer/
> 
> Ok. Any idea when GRUB 2 will get into the stable release?
> I would prefer to be running a more thoroughly debugged version of the os.

GRUB 2 is packaged in lenny already and in expert you should have got
the question to use it.
But the lenny version of it isn't yet that stable.
Or is your /boot on a SATA fake RAID aka dmraid?
Then you can't use grub2 yet.
With the daily businesscard you can also install stable/lenny if you use
expert mode or boot with priority=medium which doestn't show every
question of expert mode.


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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer