more stuff about installing from memory stick

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Samuel etal,

	You are right, booting fromthe HD with the stick still plugged in, did  attempt to boot the system, but it ran into another problem somewhere and never started speech. I had sighted help for a few minutes there.

	Booting with grml and looking at the /boot/grub/menu.lst shows that grub is configured to mount hd(1,1) as the root of the filesystem, while the actual HD partition that is to be root is "HD(0,1)". I tried editing menu.lst to reflect this, but still got the grub2 error on reboot (this time without the memory stick plugged in).

	Without sighted help, at this point I decided to try rebuilding the memory stick with today's HD-media images to do a re-install (as per the lenny guide). D-I boots and presents the installation menu (with speech). It proceeds as far as step 3 and fails to find an .iso image on the HD (of coursenot, it's on the memory stick). I tried skipping to step #4 to search for a .iso image but it cannot find one, even though the image is there on the stick.

	Am I correct in deducing that the HD-media instyaller is only going to look for the .iso on the HD partitions?

	If so, then which installer should we use to use a .iso on the memory stick? ... or am I missing something obvious to everyone else?

	--terry


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:21:54AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Terry D. Cudney, le Sat 15 Nov 2008 22:41:49 -0500, a écrit :
> > The documentation is not very clear on this point, at least to my way of thinking.
> 
> The documentation for etch is not so clear indeed.  I had a look at
> the documentation for lenny, and it clearly tells to get the images from
> hd-media, so that should be better then.
> 
> > 	Any idea on why I got the grub2 error on initial boot after the install?
> 
> Without knowing which error happens, there can be plenty of reasons.
> 
> My only idea could be to boot with the USB stick still pluggued (but
> with its booting disabled from the bios)
> 
> Samuel
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