On 20101019_094349, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I had a similar problem recently where some package failed to install, > which caused grub to fail as well. Switching to a console and issuing > aptitude install grub did the trick. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=9knxcajatfukp4bra5gx0edfrpde8f240n...@mail.gmail.com >
I think the original post was about an event that was happening during a fresh new install of Debian OS. At that point, I doubt if screen capture feature is up and running. Maybe I'm wrong. Is there a way to invoke screen capture during install of Debian? (not merely during install of a package while running aptitude or apt-get under a fully functioning Debian host system) I have seen what seems to me is the phenomenon OP is talking about. Being under the impression that I could not do a screen capture, I never really complained about it because I could not figure out a way to offer evidence that it was just an hallucinating user. What happened to me seemed to be explained by assuming that grub2 was actually installed in spite of the fact that there was this error message claiming that it wasn't. What DIDN'T get installed was any lines in /boot/grub/grug.cfg that mentioned other OSes that were already present on the computer. So on reboot, there was only the new install mention as an option. This is scary, because the new system might not actually work, but if it does, running grub-install under the new system brings into play a better version of grub.cfg that does have lines for the other OSes on the computer. When I discovered this, I stopped worrying that I was not helping squash a bug. But what I saw, really was pretty bad, at least cosmetically, since it will be a part of the first experience of Debian by every future new user. And then again, maybe I'm wrong, and it really is a recurring hallucination. Additionally, maybe significant: All my work was done using the businesscard CD, squeeze version, which seems to have been unchanged for a very long time. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101019114533.gd17...@big.lan.gnu
