[nzlug] Debian Installation Woes

[cr]

On Thursday 08 March 2007 01:31, Nevyn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've finally got a drive free for installing an OS onto again.
> However, there's a (yet another) problem. When I try to install debian
> it gets right to the end of the installation and then hangs on the
> "Rebooting into your new Debian System" and is sitting on a
> frustrating 93% and just hangs. A manual reboot just results in the
> damn thing not even getting to grub.
>
> Any ideas anyone?!?!
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Regards,
> Nevyn.

Interesting.    I just installed Etch off the CD's the night before last, on 
mine it worked fine (I was installing to /hda2) including writing a new 
menu.lst in /dev/hda2/boot/grub/, but when it rebooted it found the old 
menu.lst in /dev/hda1/boot/grub - so I copied the boot parameters from the 
new (hda2) menu.lst into the one on /hda1  and rebooted and Etch started 
perfectly.      (Same thing happened last time I reinstalled Sarge).

(Other than that Etch was the smoothest install I've ever done.)

This isn't quite the same problem you had, I don't know if it gives you any 
pointers.    Possibly you could try a rescue disk, check there's 
a /boot/vmlinuz and so on in the new partition, and reinstall GRUB yourself 
from the rescue disk and see if that will load the new Debian.

cr