Control: reassign -1 grub-common On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:27:08PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >>The Debian partition is sda7, formatted ext4. I created it in partman >>during the installation. As far as I can see from today's explorations, >>installation has been fine except for this one glitch, which was more of >>an irritation than a serious problem. I've attached the installation >>syslog to this email. > >Thanks, I'm looking at it now to see if there's anything obvious.
OK, I can see you have lots of OSes installed on your computer. I can see os-prober parsing lilo config files from other installations. :-) What I *don't* see is any indication of any failures, though. Instead, grub-install claims to have succeeded: Jul 8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda' Jul 8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy Jul 8 07:42:53 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/sda" Jul 8 07:42:54 grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform. Jul 8 07:43:05 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported. Jul 8 07:43:05 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully I'm wondering if *maybe* something has been confused by those lilo setups, but I'll admit that I'm not sure what's happening there. >>I normally prefer lilo to grub, so I reinstalled lilo from one of my >>other Linuxen, but I could do a grub-install in Debian to test out the >>grub.cfg file, which I've now renamed. Would you like me to do that? > >I'll get back to you... Yes please, that might be very helpful. Run as "grub-install -v /dev/sda" and capture the output please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
