Thanks, Andreas! I gave it a try and it worked ... sort of. I don't have Mac OSX installed on the box but I did boot first into the Mac OSX installer DVD. Then I rebooted into a bootable rEFIt disc. I used its tools and sync'd the MBR. I then rebooted and - BAM! - GRUB menu! I chose my image (the non-rescue one) and things started out OK. I saw a few lines of booting text then ... nothing. I rebooted and tried again; same results.
I waited 10 minutes and successfully SSH'd in from a different machine. So ... it's up and running. Now I suspect it's video hardware issues. After checking /etc/intttab, the default runlevel is 2. I removed the S04gdm3 symlink from /etc/rc2.d then rebooted; gdm is no longer running but the console display is still black. I have no interest in running a GUI on the machine; it'll be nothing but a headless server. I'm sooooo close. ________________________________ From: Andreas Weber <ae...@worldwideweber.ch> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 5:01:27 AM Subject: Re: Debian (2.6.35) on Mac Mini (late-2010) On 2010-11-24 22:18, w f wrote: > and got a message saying that "... no bootable disk can be found > ..." During installation of Debian, my HW (500.1 GB ATA Toshiba > MK5055GS) was detected w/o issue. Before trying rEFIt, I used the > installer disc in "recovery mode." I successfully mounted / and browsed > around a bit. So ... I'm terribly confused. (LOL) Just curiosity: What happens if you - boot into MacOS once - reboot - use the rEFIt partitioning tool to sync the MBR - reboot and try your Debian ? Your Debian should start ok afterwards from rEFIt Without having a clue why, this is what actually works for me when it happens once in a while. It seems that booting into MacOS fixes/syncs something in the EFI environment that works ok afterwards. Has anybody more insights on this? -- 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/4cef8577.8050...@worldwideweber.ch
