Re: Problem with reinstallation, bootloader

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Riccardo Mottola, le Mon 03 Nov 2014 11:46:24 +0100, a écrit :
> > I used the "text only" install. The pseud-graphical (exactly as the rescue
> > mode) sends my monitor (I tried both an LCD and a CRT) to a black screen,
> > but with a signal, but not out of sync. Very strange.
> Yes, it seems some cards don't really support some standard VGA modes.
> In more recent installers, there is a choice between pseudo-graphical
> with and without double-width characters support.
Interesting. Where can I get these more recent installers?
I just tried to reinstall again with the same cd, got the same problems 
(read below). Mine is 2013:
http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/

points to a May 2013 CD.

> > 1) no network detected (although HURD supports my network card since years)
> > the first is a minor problem I hope, once installed it will perhaps work,
> Well, the installed system uses the same drivers, so it'll probably be
> the same.  What is that network board precisely, actually?
How can I get from HURD something similar to DMESG or lspci? Right now I 
don't have any other OSs, thus I can easily list all hardware Richard B. 
asked for! Otherwise I'll burn some kind of LiveCD.
> > 2) no bootloader installed
> That's odd, we're mostly using the same as Linux.  You can get and send
> us the install logs from /var/log/installer
It is.
I tried to reinstall yesterday, /var/log/installer is not there. only 
syslog.

But I went further: I chrooted into /target and grub binaries are just 
not installed, it is obvious that its execution fails.

If there is a newer CD available, better get it so I can test more 
recent stuff isntead of 1+ year old.

Riccardo