On Monday 23 November 2009 12:27:04 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the installation-reports package: > > #557605: installation-reports: grub2 installation failure > > It has been closed by Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> (reply to > 557...@bugs.debian.org). > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Frans Pop > <elen...@planet.nl> (reply to 557...@bugs.debian.org) by replying to this > email. >
> > Debian 5.0.3 businesscard install with unstable/sid. > > This explains all of the issues you saw. The stable installer is not > guaranteed to be compatible with testing/unstable. > > You should use the installer for Squeeze [1] if you want to install testing > or unstable. > > Cheers, > FJP Thank you for your attention. I had first tried the daily build of the debian installer and it failed as well, which explains why I then tried the 5.0.3 (stable) installer. Secondly, the stable installer proposes the choice of stable, testing or unstable installations. It shouldn't fail so badly. I know that "unstable" is, well, unstable; So please use this bug report as you feel useful (as I now have a cleanly installed, working system). Sincerely, Alan P.S. I took advantage of the occasion of installing debian on this older machine to try kfreebsd-386 using the debian installer, daily build. The installation process proceeded more or less correctly, but hung on the step installing packages. I was able to proceed by killing aptitute. The rest of the installation, including the grub installation terminated correctly. However, I was unable to boot this system even manually, getting the dreadfull grub disk error message. So I gave up and fell-back installing linux, for now... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
