Just one sidenote,
please forgive me but i am no expert and did not read all your messages,
i have one computer with intel i7 2600 and one ssd in it
it had windows installed;
it was very difficult to install on the same harddrive debian (on a
separate partition , of course) and get GRUB recognized at startup.
Probably because it is UEFI only with newer Firmware, i think.
Now i have Grub Menu with Dual-Boot Debian Wheezy (Grub) and Windows
(UEFI Loader), but very often , randomly , it would not recognize GRUB
Menu at Startup, and need to Shutdown, and Re-Start. Sometimes GRUB is
only recognized after a few startups;
Maybe i have messed up the Installation, i don't know, but it is on SSD
+ UEFI, and took me some time, and yet it is not stable.
With Yaboot, i did not have such problem when installing on HDD (not
SSD) Macintosh OSX and later on the same drive Debian.
Also, after installation, the booting was rock-solid;
Only problem arose, when upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie when Wheezy was
on a seprate disk, then it somehow messed up the Harddisk entries, and
the Debian became unbootable, unless one would manually recreate the
proper Harddisk links.
I hope that Yaboot can still be used in the future as it seems very good
functioning after all.
Sorry again for my intrusion,
All the best (with Computing),
Richard
Am 04.10.17 um 10:50 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
On 10/02/2017 05:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
As a follow-up to [1] but maybe better placed under the subject of
this thread,
the promised details for the Grub installation on an Xserve G4 with
Debian Sid.
Thanks. Is there any specify reason why you aren't using grub-install?
If I remember correctly, most of the steps you went through above should
actually be performed by single invocation of grub-install which is what
debian-installer is doing as well.
Adrian
