2010/1/29 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:55:06 -0500, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/1/29 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com>: >>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:23 -0500, consul tores wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I am having a similar problem with a Celeron 800, 384 Mb RAM. >>>> >>>> I had Lenny as a ssh/ftp/openvpn server, then i did upgrade to Squeeze >>>> having the mentioned problem with Grub2, It could not be installed; >>>> after that i decide to test it installing Squeeze from scrash on ext2, >>>> ext3, and reiserfs, using the i386 Jan/28 netinstaller, and as >>>> results, it could not be installed again. >>>> >>>> After that, I did a test, instaling OpenBSD, and i had a normal >>>> installation, but at reboot, OpenBSD could not boot by the cause of >>>> Grub2. Tomorrow i am going to install Lenny again, after i repair the >>>> mbr. >>> >>> As much as I dislike grub2, as Stan mentioned, you should check >>> your BIOS setup program as well. Some BIOS setup programs have settings >>> intended to prevent writing to the master boot record. It may be >>> called "virus protection mode" (should be off to install) or >>> "Operating system install mode" (should be on to install) or >>> something along those lines. You won't be able to install *any* >>> boot loader to the mbr if this setting is not correct. >> >> Yes, it is correct, but in this specific case, grub-legacy was >> installed at first, and it was working well. After my last message, i >> did another check and using the rescue mode at the netinstaller, Lenny >> and Squeeze; i saw that there were installed only grub-pc and other; >> but not Grub2. Thanks again. > > First, please reply to the list, not to me.
Yes, it is my fault. low attention. > Second, I'm glad you have your BIOS settings correct. you, can not know if it is correct, just i can. > I think you know this, but just in case you don't, neither grub1 nor > grub2, as I use them in posts, are necessarily package names. > They are names that I use to distinguish > between two completely different programs. Lenny has a package > called grub. When I'm referring to it in posts I call it grub1. > But the actual package name is grub. Lenny also has a package called > grub-pc. In posts I call it grub2, but the package name is grub-pc. > This is a completely new program, rewritten from the ground up, but > unfortunately also called grub. Lenny also has a package called > grub2, but it is a dummy package. > > Squeeze has a package called grub-legacy. It is the same program that > I call grub1 in posts. It is the same package that Lenny calls grub. > It may have some additional bug fixes and enhancements that the Lenny version > doesn't have, but it is essentially the same program. Squeeze has > a package called grub, but it is a dummy package. It also has a > package called grub2, but that is also a dummy package. Finally, > Squeeze has a package called grub-pc. It is what I call grub2 in > posts. It is essentially the same program that Lenny calls grub-pc. > It may have some additional bug fixes and enhancements over the Lenny > version of the package, but it is essentially the same program. > > The bottom line: it is not enough to know the names of the packages > installed on your system. You must also know whether they were > installed from the Lenny repository or the Squeeze repository to > know, in the general case, what program it really is. It's confusing > as all get-out. It is yet another reason that I still run lilo. YES, all the theory that you are bringing ahead is absolutly important, exept that i really have not read it, before my first message; it was not my target recording names! My first message was sended to the person who inicieate the thread, emphasysing the fact that Grub in Squeeze fails in almost any fs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
