Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk
- From: "Dan H." <dunno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:26:59 +0100
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:59:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
yes, that's normal (at least in my experience, it's been a while since
I used it). There are no locales set up on the new system yet...
Yes, it went away after dpkg-reconfigure locales.
to upgrade many packages -- I mean, all packages had come fresh off the same
server minutes ago.
That's interesting. What target did you install? you can specify what
version to install. Perhaps you installed an older version than what
was subsequently specified in sources.list?
Not sure how so. On the "master" PC (sarge) I had just done an
update-upgrade, then debootstrapped sarge onto the USB disk, then chrooted.
Puzzling, but doesn't really matter.
yeah. debootstrap is architecture independent, so you have to install
a kernel and bootloader.
Yes, I figured that. But it ain't easy. There's simply no way I can think of
to make grub install itself on that disk. I have no idea which (hdx,y) to
use. /dev/sda is flatly refused as it is not a "BIOS" disk. Why can't grub
simply install itself on /dev/sda if I tell it to? Can't grub list all disk
partitions in its funny notation so that I can see which one to use? All the
time of course I'm in imminent danger of hosing the bootloader on my
built-in disk.
Anyway, I'm really stumped on the bootloader issue now. Do I have to go back
to LILO? Don't really want to because all those bootloading issues seem
extremely fishy to me (because I don't understand them), and I don't want to
have to mess with different bootloaders.
I couldn't find anything in the grub docs that explains how to properly
specify a target device. The blind guessing approach I've used so far has
usually resulted in a working grub on a built-in IDE disk after two or three
attempts.
--D.
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