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Stan Goodman wrote:
When the first reboot happened, I left the DVD in the drive, which I am sure is correct. After the reboot, what came up was the installers main screen, offering the choice of booting from the Hard Disk, Installation, etc. Choosing "Installation" brings me back to the beginning of the upgrade process (language, accept the conditions, etc.), which I do not think is where I want to be. In other words, I appear to have lost the thread of the upgrade process. I hope someone will explain to me why this has happened, and what I can do about it.
It seems that you interrupted the installation process. After the first reboot, at the menu that appears when the DVD is left in the drive you should have chosen the option "Boot From The Hard Disk"; then the installation procedure would continue and you would have made the final configurations.
"Boot from the hard disk" is exactly what I did.
Removing the DVD and rebooting causes a black screen to come up, with a prompt like "grub >". In other words, the upgrade process has decided on its own initiative to install GRUB in the Master Boot Sector. This is dirty pool: When I first installed v10..2, I put GRUB into a very small partition all by itself; I did this for a very good reason, and I was allowed to do it, and there is something very wrong with the upgrader/installer moving it about in this way without asking me. I'll fix this, but it should not have happened.
The installation procedure allows you to customize the Boot Loader configurations. You may choose where to install it (MBR or HDD) as well as which one to install (Grub or Lilo).
I do not remember being asked this question. I am sure I was not. Given that this was an upgrade (i.e. a situation in which such things as the location of GRUB pre-exists), it's hard to see why the question would even be appropriate.
Hope I could be of any help.
So what options are available to me now? To discard what is there and make a New Install?
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