[Solved] AVlinux 5.0.3 on dedicated partition

[stefan]

I'm trying to install AV Linux 5.0.3 on a dedicated partition. My partition schema looks like this:

Code:

/dev/sda
 /dev/sda5 Main system
/dev/sda2 Swap
/dev/sda3 AV Linux

I go through the installer without any problems. I choose to place GRUB on my root partition since I already have a working MBR. Simple enough... But when I try to boot into AVlinux, I get this:

Code:

error: no such device 818d3cb4-6f5d-4091-abe6-f2686d2e28cb
error: file not found
error: you need to load the kernel first

So I reboot, go into my 'main system' (Mint), and check the ID of /dev/sda3 via GParted. And it's not a match! Roboot, edit the boot command line, replacing the fawlty ID with the one GParted reports. But no love. The first error about the device is gone, but the other is persistant:

Code:

error: file not found
error: you need to load the kernel first

I actually installed AVlinux 5.0.2 on /dev/sda3 a week ago, and it worked perfectly. However, a stupid apt-get dist-upgrade left me with a dangling dependency problem, so I decided to reinstall. Then, all of a sudden, the no such device error showed up. That I could live with, but then 5.0.3 came out, so I decided to go for that instead. Now the file not found error adds to the list...

I've md5-checked the ISO. I've formatted and deleted /dev/sda3.

Now I'm left without a clue... Anyone?

[stefan]

Sorry to have bothered You... both problems solved with a simple sudo update-grub from my main system (Mint).

[GMaq]

Hi,

Read the AV Linux manual. You don't want to ever dist-upgrade AV Linux, it is far too customized for that and although it is compatible with the Squeeze repositories it is not really intended for a dist-upgrade like a pure Debian OS would be.