I would like to install Debian 11 how would I use the netinstall cd to do that if grub fails to install….Ive followed a bunch of totorials from the powerprogress script grubfix.sh to others and nothing works. I just want the base install of Debian that’s it…
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Grub Failed to Install
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It no longer works when you use the install it requires you to use the Debian repository for Sid so during install it upgrades itself to Debian 13 because that’s what’s on there current Debian repo now…you can’t do a minimal install because it requires internet so during the install it skips over Debian 11 and shoots you directly to Debian 13 current….which I don’t want so I’m not sure…
Even if you use the Debian 11 install images it requires an internet connection and because the current installer disc use the same Debian repository as the Debian 11 disc during setup it auto updates it to the current Sid release so I’m stuck…unless I can figure out a way to fix grub and not use the network connection and then update the sources on first boot to one of the Debian 11 snapshots but I’m stuck at grub install failure with the Debian 11 disc during install….ive tried powerprogresses grubfix script which doesn’t work for me and also tried apt install yaboot and hfsutil before the install completes but apt install yaboot doesn’t work either so I’m stuck…
"***Fixed***
In the future, if anyone wants to know how to do this, it is super easy. Download grubfix32.sh from repo.powerprogress.org/debian/install/grubfix32.sh and copy it to a USB flash drive formatted as FAT or HFS. Use the Debian CD to boot into the rescue mode, mount the root partition (for me, it was sda3), execute a shell prompt, and run 'chmod u+x' to make the script executable. Then, run the script './grubfix32.sh' and point it to your boot partition, which, for me, looks like this: './grubfix32.sh /dev/sda2'. Let it do its thing, reboot, and then you can proceed to edit your sources.list and add whatever snapshots you want, as long as they are newer than the image you downloaded to do the install. For example, the DVD image I used was generated in June, so I would not be able to use a repo from December of the previous year.
In the future, if anyone wants to know how to do this, it is super easy. Download grubfix32.sh from repo.powerprogress.org/debian/install/grubfix32.sh and copy it to a USB flash drive formatted as FAT or HFS. Use the Debian CD to boot into the rescue mode, mount the root partition (for me, it was sda3), execute a shell prompt, and run 'chmod u+x' to make the script executable. Then, run the script './grubfix32.sh' and point it to your boot partition, which, for me, looks like this: './grubfix32.sh /dev/sda2'. Let it do its thing, reboot, and then you can proceed to edit your sources.list and add whatever snapshots you want, as long as they are newer than the image you downloaded to do the install. For example, the DVD image I used was generated in June, so I would not be able to use a repo from December of the previous year.
I fixed my issue
In the future, if anyone wants to know how to do this, it is super easy. Download grubfix32.sh from repo.powerprogress.org/debian/install/grubfix32.sh and copy it to a USB flash drive formatted as FAT or HFS. Use the Debian CD to boot into the rescue mode, mount the root partition (for me, it was sda3), execute a shell prompt, and run 'chmod u+x' to make the script executable. Then, run the script './grubfix32.sh' and point it to your boot partition, which, for me, looks like this: './grubfix32.sh /dev/sda2'. Let it do its thing, reboot, and then you can proceed to edit your sources.list and add whatever snapshots you want, as long as they are newer than the image you downloaded to do the install. For example, the DVD image I used was generated in June, so I would not be able to use a repo from December of the previous year.
In the future, if anyone wants to know how to do this, it is super easy. Download grubfix32.sh from repo.powerprogress.org/debian/install/grubfix32.sh and copy it to a USB flash drive formatted as FAT or HFS. Use the Debian CD to boot into the rescue mode, mount the root partition (for me, it was sda3), execute a shell prompt, and run 'chmod u+x' to make the script executable. Then, run the script './grubfix32.sh' and point it to your boot partition, which, for me, looks like this: './grubfix32.sh /dev/sda2'. Let it do its thing, reboot, and then you can proceed to edit your sources.list and add whatever snapshots you want, as long as they are newer than the image you downloaded to do the install. For example, the DVD image I used was generated in June, so I would not be able to use a repo from December of the previous year.
