[nzlug] Debian Installation Woes

[Nevyn]

On 3/8/07, cr <cr at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> 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

Strange error. I switched over to the logging screen and found no
problems there. In my desperation I decided to just unplug all the
hard drives except the one that I want to install Linux on. And sure
enough, it installed just fine. Hopefully when I plug all the other
harddrives back in it'll work like a working thing. About to try it in
a few minutes...