On Wednesday 15 September 2010 08:05:58 Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:32:19 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> Here is a try to install Squeeze into Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6. Virtual > >> drive is 8.0 GB persistent, RAM 768 Mb, a virtual drive was partitioned > >> by Squeeze installer with default settings (/, swap; ext3). Everything > >> is fine, except for bootloader. There is a failure during GRUB (GRUB2, > >> lilo) installation process: "GRUB installation failed. The 'grub-pc' > >> package failed to install into /target/." > >> > >> Also tried to partition a virtual hdd before Squeeze installation. No > >> effect, bootloader installation failed also. > >> > >> Please, help to install a bootloader. > > > > I also had problems for installing GRUB (legacy) into VM using d-i > > (squeeze). I had to use SuperGrubDisk and proceed from there. > > Thanks for an idea. Tried both SGD and Debian Squeeze weekly build > DVD-1 'Rescue Mode' with no success: apt-get reported there are no > such files on the media. Actually they are in a proper place and > sources.list is in order and contains that DVD as a valid repository. > > > Indeed, installing GRUB in lenny was also problematic, IIRC. The first > > time always failed (red screen with error message: "GRUB installation > > failed"), and had to retry to get it properly installed :-? > > Yes, I confirm that. Another way to won was to pre-partition a target > drive by LiveCD before an actual install. > > Have no clue on next step anyway. Tried Squeeze netinstall image on > the same VirtualBox, it is not booting even. > How to install Squeeze?? > -- > > Sincerely Yours' > Mark Goldshtein
I have had the same error in using Vbox & Squeeze. Since my goal was to have a single os vm I just installed lilo instead. Lilo was given as a choice when I said no to installing grub. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201009151014.11817.gomadtr...@gci.net
