Hi there,
I used to have a functional(old) siduction release in my PC desktop. I screwed it up after a d-u and then decided to go for a brand-new release. I tried both from the latest siduction 13.2.1 dvd iso and from the Debian 7.5.0 netinst iso, with the same error after a seemingly normal installation to the hard disk (in fact a Samsung SSD disk): right after the first boot, there comes the error message (for both linuxes)
error: file `/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod` not found
and then it goes to grub rescue mode...
I should say that I suspect the issue is related somehow to the UEFI vs Legacy booting system of the machine. In fact, the media I used for siduction was a burnt dvd, from the downloaded iso, whereas for Debian I used a usb-stick, recorded from the corresponding downloaded iso. I am only able to boot, in both cases, when the Intel booting system is chosen as UEFI, never as Legacy. Now I will describe my hardware in detail:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770
Motherboard: Intel DH87MC
Bios: Intel MCH8710H.86A.0043.2013.0412.2225 (I know there is a more recent version in their site, but do not get much excited about upgrading to it, but perhaps this might be worth a try...)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GK107 (GeForce GTX 650)
Hard disk 1: Seagate ST2000DM001, with 2.0 TB, at /dev/sda, originally partitioned as /dev/sda1: swap, /dev/sda2: my old home, from previous installations, and /dev/sd3: my desired new /home
"Hard" disk 2: Samsung SSD 840, with 256 GB, at /dev/sdb, originally partitioned as /dev/sdb1: fat (flagged as boot), and /dev/sdb2: /
Besides, I have usual cd/dvd drive, American USB Logitech keyboard and Logitech USB mouse
Some random observations or doubts of mine, which may or may not be pertinent, are:
1) with this new UEFI/Legacy stuff, I really am unsure about the correct partitioning for preparing the installation from the cd/dvd (or, in case of Debian, from the usb-stick) to the SSD disk. The partitioning i tried was as described above, but I remember, during the Debian trial, that the installer compalined of not existing a UEFI partition (or the like) and, nevertheless, I kept going on
2) indeed, in the root partition /, after the misleadingly apparently succesful installation, I checked (both under siduction and under debian) that there was no directory i386-pc but there was one named boot/grub, with several .mod files and one named grub.efi and another one named normal.mod (SIC)
3) when I use the siduction live dvd and am able to get into a working live environment (only through the choice of UEFI in the Intel booting stage), I am given automatically a plain KDE desktop environment, never passing through an intermediate step in which I might choose some lower submenus identified by F2, F5, etc keys
4) if I insist on trying to boot with the Legacy Bios mode, I end up with a screen such as in
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4036227/20140622_180210.jpgand pressing any key takes me a kind of terminal window in which I am asked to choose one of 3 possibilities: siduction amd64, a second and a third ones I don't remember. Anyhow, choosing whichever leads me nowhere
Well, I have chatted a lot with several people at #siduction, today and also yesterday, but with no success. I would like to again thank everybody and I really hope you can give me some solution: I just want to keep using siduction, but I am getting somewhat helpless, since I cannot now even begin to have problems with it...
Cheers!