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Month: August 2018

Re: [trinity-users] stretch problems

From: Mike Bird <mgb-trinity@...>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 15:42:26 -0700
On Tue August 21 2018 14:43:38 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Now, I just did 2 more installs, turning off my speakers first, neither
> of which installed a byte of grub to the /boot partition.  So I rebooted
> a third time to the live image, and found no trace of a grub in any dir
> of the live image boot. So there is no chance of fixing the installers
> hiccups. I think this last time I had it save the logs to the boot
> partition on this drive, but I'll be damned if I can find them.
>
> I did find a way around formatting the disk, but the first time it
> mentioned installing grub it wanted to put it in the MBR of /dev/sda1,
> which I refused as I'll goto the bios boot menu to boot from the chosen
> disk.  So far I have managed to keep it from screwing up the boot from
> sda.

Hi Gene,

Is there some Trinity bug being reported here that I am overlooking?

Or would this thread be better directed to a Debian or Devuan mailing
list related to whichever installer you are experiencing problems with,
and where the list members might be more able to offer relevant advice
and solutions?

--Mike