Net install 2007.08-2

thibdb13 · 2007-10-07 19:55:05

I downloaded today the net-install iso-image for 2007.08-2.
After launching the cd, everything seemed to be OK. The installation happened without any problem (downloading packages, configuration, bootloader,...). So, I typed reboot and WHAT A SURPRISE: nothing seems to have been installed. Grub was the "old" one (from openSuse 10.3) and I came back into my Suse pc??:/:/
What did I do wrong during the installation?? (I have already installed Arch about 10-15 times without any problem and now THAT NON-INSTALLATION?! :mad:
What's going on??

stingray · 2007-10-07 20:49:37

Did you install grub to the specific partition, or to the master boot record. For example I have installed grub to /dev/sda1 which didn't work until I installed grub to /dev/sda.

Just a thought.

thibdb13 · 2007-10-08 07:32:55

I did install grub at the MBR (/dev/sda).
I must well say that my pc did not do any noise when grub was being installed and I thought: wow, this new pc is really good!!
My impression is that the installation program does not copy his partitions (/mnt/ mnt/home mnt/boot) to the hard disk. It might also come from the fact I wanted to have reiserfs partitions. The installator seemed to format the partitions but it might be an illusion.

Anonymo · 2007-10-10 00:03:59

hey this happened to me as well

I thought it was something I did wrong and was going to try it again later.

The only thing I changed since last install was deepfreeze on c: drive.

fernux · 2007-10-10 00:34:31

I think it is a suse problem, i have four hard-drives in my computer, one for win,one for arch, the other as ntfs and ext3 formated no boot.

I tried to install suse on a third disk and i can't solve suse's behavior on installing grub, so i give up.
tried several times and chose expert install, but it failed.
because i can't let suse install grub on /dev/sdc and dont mess whit my other drives.

Anonymo · 2007-10-10 01:39:11

not a suse problem since this is archlinux

stingray · 2007-10-10 02:56:06

Note: It looks like thibdb13 got this working, jumped threads over here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38223

thibdb13 wrote:

So, I tried once again and shame on me!!
Yesterday, I probably forgot to make "done" after mounting the partitions (when trying to mount /dev/sda2, I did not find ntfs as partition type and clicked on "cancel" and I was sent back to the general menu installation, I went then on and it was probably too late)
Now, after today's new attempt, it is working very nicely.

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#1 2007-10-07 19:55:05

Net install 2007.08-2

#2 2007-10-07 20:49:37

Re: Net install 2007.08-2

#3 2007-10-08 07:32:55

Re: Net install 2007.08-2

#4 2007-10-10 00:03:59

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#5 2007-10-10 00:34:31

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#6 2007-10-10 01:39:11

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