Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 December 2006 19:10, Luca wrote: > Don't know if that's the case but I had to patch asmstub.c to include > mman.h and use MMAP (MAP_32BIT) to make it install and work under > AMD64. > > Then I tried another time without patching but using CC="gcc -m32" and > installation went fine. Co

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-11 Thread Apodaca, Bob
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 08 December 2006 16:13, Bob Apodaca wrote: Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the command given is: apt-install grub Starting a shell and using "chroot /target apt-get install grub" works fine. After that, using the installer grub will in

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 December 2006 01:35, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Have you done it using grub from Etch or Sid? It was a regular installation using a daily image, so grub-installer from sid and grub from etch. > Nevertheless both should work fine. I agree that we could close this. Oh, I would not rul

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:10, Douglas Tutty wrote: > Where should I email the installation report? Should it go to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want it to go to > the right place for you. Please advise. As long as it is about this issue, just mail the syslog (gzipped) to #4

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:16:51PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:56, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I tried to find it via the web interface to this bug number with no > > luck. I'll try googling 402157 site:debian.org and see what I find. > > http://bugs.debian.org/402157 s

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:56, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I tried to find it via the web interface to this bug number with no > luck. I'll try googling 402157 site:debian.org and see what I find. http://bugs.debian.org/402157 should always work. In this case you want this message: http://bugs.d

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:56, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > If you want me to reinstall with CD1 netinst.iso let me know; also let > > me know how to change the grub-installer postinst verboseness. > > I've already explained that in an

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 18:04, Douglas Tutty wrote: > Or it skipped it for me. No, not possible. This can only happen if the step "Finish installation" is not run at all, and the installer will never skip that by itself. (Unless of course there is a bug in that step, but then you should have

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:50:37PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:37, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > /var/log/installer doesn't exist. I can't imagine that I would have > > deleted it. Its not on my hd-media USB stick nor on any of my zip > > disks. > > It is only on the ins

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:56, Douglas Tutty wrote: > If you want me to reinstall with CD1 netinst.iso let me know; also let > me know how to change the grub-installer postinst verboseness. I've already explained that in an earlier post to this bug report. pgprkYP4g9Eqp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 02:50:02PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > >> On Saturday 09 December 2006 16:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > I can't find the installation syslog; I thought it shou

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 17:37, Douglas Tutty wrote: > /var/log/installer doesn't exist. I can't imagine that I would have > deleted it. Its not on my hd-media USB stick nor on any of my zip > disks. It is only on the installed system if the installation completes correctly. Apparently you

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> On Saturday 09 December 2006 16:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> > I can't find the installation syslog; I thought it should be in >> > /var/log/installer-log. >> >> The syslog for the installatio

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:05:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 16:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I can't find the installation syslog; I thought it should be in > > /var/log/installer-log. > > The syslog for the installation can be found on the installed system as: > /var/

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 December 2006 16:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I can't find the installation syslog; I thought it should be in > /var/log/installer-log. The syslog for the installation can be found on the installed system as: /var/log/installer/syslog pgppxVaCkO57O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:11:41PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think, but am not sure, the problem wasn't that the grub package > > wasn't installed but rather that it didn't end up in the MBR. I could > > be wrong since the AMD installs packa

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-09 Thread Otavio Salvador
Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think, but am not sure, the problem wasn't that the grub package > wasn't installed but rather that it didn't end up in the MBR. I could > be wrong since the AMD installs packages in the blink of an eye (instead > of the rotation of the earth as on my

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Luca
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 06:55:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > >> On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petri??or wrote: >> Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the > > >> In short, we need to find out _why_ grub failed here. >> >> Bob:

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 06:55:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > > > Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the > In short, we need to find out _why_ grub failed here. > > Bob: Could you try to reproduce the error?

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 December 2006 20:01, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Hmm, that means the ppp package will be not queued if apt-install is > ran in ppp-udeb's postinst, doesn't it? > > So the the correct place to run apt-install would be in > finish-install.d scripts (or at least for ppp-udeb)? No, it can be r

Re: Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petrișor wrote: Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the command given is: apt-install grub That command is valid, but if it fails, the installation process will fail(stop) unless the command is ran something li

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Luca
Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > >>> Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the >>> command given is: apt-install grub >>> >> That command is valid, but if it fails, the installation process will >> fail(stop) unless the

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 08 December 2006 17:57, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the > > command given is: apt-install grub > > That command is valid, but if it fails, the installation process will > fail(stop) unless the command is ran something like "apt

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Apodaca, Bob
Sorry, I was not aware that apt-install is a valid command. No, I did not skip any steps during the installation. Eddy Petrișor wrote: Bob Apodaca wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: important Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the command given is: ap

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Eddy Petrișor
Bob Apodaca wrote: Package: debian-installer Severity: important Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the command given is: apt-install grub That command is valid, but if it fails, the installation process will fail(stop) unless the command is ran something like "

Bug#402157: debian-installer: Bad apt command for grub on AMD64

2006-12-08 Thread Bob Apodaca
Package: debian-installer Severity: important Grub fails to install on AMD64, when I check the virtual console the command given is: apt-install grub Starting a shell and using "chroot /target apt-get install grub" works fine. After that, using the installer grub will install. -- System Informa