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Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.

From	Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work.
Date	2019-04-04 19:00 +0200
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 11:09:13 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:

>On Thursday 04 April 2019 10:55:23 Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 10:39:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:  
>> > I am  today, going to make my 6th attempt to make the stretch
>> > netinstall work.
>> >
>> > I think I have sussed the failure mode, which seems to be that by
>> > the time its finslly gets around to installing grub, its too far
>> > into the diksk for the dumb bios on this old Asus mobo to find it,
>> > so this time I am going to add a /boot as first partition. At 2 or 3
>> > hundred megs.  

I wonder if that long delay is while it is fscking the hard drive? It
can take quite a while with a drive that big.


>>
>> Are you trying to install the boot loader portion of grub to a
>> PARTITION? Instead of to the front of a DISK?
>>
>> The boot loader part of GRUB goes in the first bytes of the disk. 
>> That's where the BIOS reads it from, and then executes it.
>>
>> That boot loader portion then looks for its configuration file in your
>> Debian /boot partition, which can be anywhere on the disk.
>>
>> Or at least, that's how things work in legacy BIOS.  (U)EFI is a
>> different story.  Since you claim this is an "old" machine and even
>> used the word "bios", I assume you're using legacy BIOS and MBR (not
>> GPT) disklabels.  
>
>Yes.
>
>> When you partition a disk with an MBR disklabel, you leave a small gap
>> at the front of the disk for the boot loader and partition table. 
>> They go into that unpartitioned space.
>>
>> The Debian installer already handles all of this for you, even in
>> manual partitioning mode (which is what I always use).  I can't even
>> guess how you've failed this process 5 times, unless it's because you
>> keep putting GRUB in the wrong place.  
>
>In the mbr, like it wants to. On the reboot if it ever touches the disk, 
>the led blink is too fast to see, all I see on screen after post is a 
>blinking cursor at the upper left corner. I'd give it a while to e2fsck 
>the drive, but theres zero drive activity.
>
>Cheers, Gene Heskett


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Thread

Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 16:40 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-04-04 17:00 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 17:10 +0200
      Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-04-04 19:00 +0200
        Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 21:40 +0200
          Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-05 09:20 +0200
            Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-05 11:50 +0200
              Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-04-05 13:00 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-04-04 19:20 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-04 21:00 +0200
      Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 22:00 +0200
        Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-05 20:10 +0200
          Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-06-09 17:10 +0200
    Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-04 21:50 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-04-04 20:50 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 21:10 +0200
  Re: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-04-04 21:10 +0200

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