Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
Thank Wright! with more than 20 years of experience in installing and using debian, do i have to read installation guide? it is said that installing debian is as easy as pressing Enter it is dumb to report fatal error after all configuration and copying after 30 years of development, install

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:09:31AM +0800, hlyg wrote: > > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > > Cheers, > > David. > > > Thank Wright! i have solved

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 30 Mar 2025 at 11:50:52 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > i install with debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > during final stage of installation, it fails to install grub > > "Executing 'grub-install dummy' failed." > "This is a fatal error." > > how to solve it? Presumably that error message was f

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-05 Thread hlyg
On 4/1/25 05:20, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Make it simple for yourself. If you are at all unsure when you install, just take guided partitioning. That should set up a 512M partition for boot, a 1G partition for swap and the rest of the disk for / Unless you *really have* to partition things you

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-04-01 Thread hlyg
Thank Nikulin! i read wiki page you mention, it is too technical, as end user, i am not expected to worry such details it seems to me that efi isn't very mature at present it doesn't offer any benefits to me though it is superior to mbr

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 01 Apr 2025 at 04:09:31 (+0800), hlyg wrote: > On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: > > Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked > > at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? > > > Thank Wright! i have solved it on my own > > i am new user o

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/04/2025 03:09, hlyg wrote: in the end i use mbr, as one of my PCs doesn't support gpt It depends on firmware, but I expect that UEFI spec describes requirements for ESP in the case of MBR partitions. btw what is recommended size of efi partition? default size is 512M sgdisk(8)

Re: Unable to install GRUB in dummy

2025-03-31 Thread hlyg
On 3/31/25 10:50, David Wright wrote: Presumably that error message was from the screen. Have you looked at /var/log/installer/syslog for more expansive error messages? Cheers, David. Thank Wright! i have solved it on my own i am new user of gpt, fatal error is caused by my failure to creat