rewolff
December 4th, 2008, 06:19 PM
Hi,
My install crashed, so I restarted it, and got just a teeny little bit further before bombing out. I checked my CD for defects, and it checked out OK. On the other hand, the first time it bombed, I did have some IO errors on the CD drive.
In any case, it didn't finish setting up GRUB, so the system was not bootable. Attempting to at least make it bootable by hand led to the problem that I don't know how to label my root partition with UUID, and that specifying root=sda1 to just get the d**n thing booted leads to a syntax
error. (Hmm. Maybe I should've said: root=/dev/sda1, but normally, at least for the kernel, simply sda1 just works)...
Anyway, going through the whole install again, just for it to bomb out near the end is taking a lot of time, Can I restart the installer someway after it installed all the packages ?
Oh. For reference, I install by saying: "start ubuntu without modfiying my computer" and then click on install. This allows me to mess around a bit, and configure the network while the install is running. The first time, I needed to move the old debian install out of the way. Lucky I did, because now the system still boots debian...
My install crashed, so I restarted it, and got just a teeny little bit further before bombing out. I checked my CD for defects, and it checked out OK. On the other hand, the first time it bombed, I did have some IO errors on the CD drive.
In any case, it didn't finish setting up GRUB, so the system was not bootable. Attempting to at least make it bootable by hand led to the problem that I don't know how to label my root partition with UUID, and that specifying root=sda1 to just get the d**n thing booted leads to a syntax
error. (Hmm. Maybe I should've said: root=/dev/sda1, but normally, at least for the kernel, simply sda1 just works)...
Anyway, going through the whole install again, just for it to bomb out near the end is taking a lot of time, Can I restart the installer someway after it installed all the packages ?
Oh. For reference, I install by saying: "start ubuntu without modfiying my computer" and then click on install. This allows me to mess around a bit, and configure the network while the install is running. The first time, I needed to move the old debian install out of the way. Lucky I did, because now the system still boots debian...