I installed Etch in the remaining free space on my lower array, got all
the way through, and wrote grub to the MBR. When it rebooted, it still
had the original Ubuntu grub configuration, and didn't know anything
about no Debian.
I let Ubuntu come up, then mounted the Debian partition with the mount
command. Then I checked to see that the /boot in my Debian partition
(sdb1) looked right, it did. (I didn't look too closely) Obviously,
Debian neglected to put the thing in the right partition. So I just
copied it down to overwrite the Ubuntu one.
This basically lost both installations. It turns out that Debian got
mixed up on the disk order, and set everything one number too high.
I booted from the Ubuntu DVD, mounted sda1 again, and edited menu.list.
Changed every sdb1 to sda1, and every hd1 to hd0. That fixed it.
Then booted up Debian (2.6.16-2-amd64-generic) and tried to start gnome
- all I got was the plain window manager. After poking around, I am
seeing that gnome is only partially installed... the actual
gnome-desktop-environment package will not install due to a nightmare of
dependency conflicts.
I would scrap it now, except that 2 days ago I had the exact same
distribution running fine in a vm on the same machine. Ideas?
--
If fifty million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
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