Path: csiph.com!news.redatomik.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Brian Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Install on hp-pavilion-g6-2100 stops at 98% Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 01:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Sat Sep 2 23:17:41 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.899 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Backscatter: 123456789 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/726021 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170902231708.GR15649@copernicus.org.uk Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 53 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 00:17:08 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <20170902231708.GR15649@copernicus.org.uk> X-Original-References: <02092017180540.28cf337fe64e@desktop.copernicus.org.uk> <7c4e1bf5-d409-ff47-b7b0-3c4ddb95752e@gmail.com> <02092017184425.a9ca16c4c0b8@desktop.copernicus.org.uk> <9848b36a-651e-bb44-e334-f6fa892d63c3@gmail.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:186330 On Sun 03 Sep 2017 at 00:07:37 +0200, Luis Speciale wrote: > Le 02/09/2017 à 19:54, Brian a écrit : > > >Use 'cp debian.iso /dev/sdX' if you have another Linux computer to > >hand. > > I'm on Mac OS. After some ggogling, I did install the ISO on a new USB key > like this > > unmountDisk /dev/disk1 > sudo dd if=./debian-9.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m Mac OS is a mystery to me, but I believe it is UNIX based. dd looks like a decent command to use. > Then I did the install, but now I have this at startup And it installed. So that part is ok. Progress. > error: file `/boot/grub/x86_g4-efi/normal.mod`not found > Entering rescue mode... > grub rescue> Pass on why you should get this. efi is something else I know nothing about. > Did more googling an I saw that some people did an ls command here, which I > did > > grub rescue> > (hd0) (hd0.gpt6) (hd0) (hd0.gpt5) (hd0) (hd0.gpt4) (hd0) (hd0.gpt3) (hd0) > (hd0.gpt2) (hd0) (hd0.gpt1) (hd0) (hd1) (cd0) > > That I think means the disks I have (I did chose a LVM with a home, tmp, > etc) One of those partitions should have the files vmlinuz and initrd.img on it. Look at the contents of each partition with 'ls (hd0.gpt1)/', 'ls (hd0.gpt2)/' etc to find them. Then at the prompt (if the partition is (hd0.gpt1): set root=(hd0.gpt1) linux vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 initrd initrd.img boot /dev/sda1 becomes /dev/sda2 if the partition is (hd0.gpt2). If that works it should be easy for us to go from there. -- Brian.