Re: reinstallation with host machine - no success

[Riccardo Mottola]

Svante Signell wrote:
> Which image did you use? And if using the latest image did you enable
> network or not? I think you should use a known working image and install
> without upgrading (i.e. no network) intil the install is completed. It
> can happen that the latest sid version is broken (happened to me a few
> times)
I used:
https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/netinst.iso

which would be may 2014. I don't think there were network problems. As 
said, by using this second PC I had no troubles during installation.

It is very strange that on the original PC I get this continuous 
reboot.. as if GRUB was causing a problem?

Anyway today I tried again on the "host" pc. I got an fsck warning, fsck 
executed and I got to a root prompt! Cool!

Then I reboot... and my BIOS says that my setup is gone. BINGO!

Did you remember perhaps that I was signalling this problem with my old 
PC? if a a successful multi-user boot succeeded, my BIOS was botched.

Fine. Very fine. this can be reproduced on a different PC, different 
manufacturer, different CPU and much newer. Darn.

Riccardo