On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> wrote: > 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. >
Just finished a fresh install. This time went through 'expert text install' and have chosen a network mirror with possibly more actual packages. Install process was smooth and clean, GRUB is in MBR now and booting well. Thanks to all for your help and support! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- 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/aanlktim4yyeumzkvceom2gz+kg5v_nfjejwx8-ani...@mail.gmail.com
