Success report: GRUB2, LVM, GPT, AMD64, Debian Installer

Hello! A short success report about using GRUB2 on a LVM-only system, with GPT instead of the usual MBR booting, on a AMD64 system, installed with the 20090531-7 Debian Installer. I had the DI create a GPT partition table, partitioned that into a small (1 MiB) GRUB booting partition (as suggested

Problem with recent netinst images on amd64

Hello! I'm having trouble with booting today's amd64 netinst image: it hangs already after partition detection, when booting the kernel, before the Debian installer starts. You can find a photograph on . I reproduced this with all of the

Re: Short feedback about the ``Debian Installer etch beta 2''

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:46:09AM -0400, I wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:12:27AM -0400, I wrote: > Booting stops with ``Waiting for root file system...'', dropping > into a shell after some time. There I run `insmod ide-disk', followed by > `vgchange -ay vg0' (my root file system is on LVM)

Re: Short feedback about the ``Debian Installer etch beta 2''

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:12:27AM -0400, I wrote: > The installation went flawlessly then! :-) The first reboot also did. But then I `apt-get upgrade'd and rebooted again. Booting stops with ``Waiting for root file system...'', dropping into a shell after some time. There I run `insmod ide-di

Short feedback about the ``Debian Installer etch beta 2''

Hello! I just spent some time trying to install Debian testing i386 (etch beta 2 release, netinst CD image) on a system with only 32 MiB of RAM... (No, I don't intend to use the system like that, but I thought I could already install it, albeit not having the final memory equipment at hand.) Aft