Bug#700642: Work around for the grub install during live installation
System Configurations:
A samsung Netbook
Samsung N150-JP0GIN
Problems enquired:
Installation is carried away smoothly till the "Grub Installtion"
step. It just fails to install GRUB. It isn't able to install LILO
even. So its installing the system but without a boot-manager.
My system won't be bootable after that without a boot manager.
Workaround:
1. After installing the system and coming to the GRUB installation
stage, GRUB installation fails. So get to terminal by pressing
Alt+Ctrl+F1
2. We shared an Internet Connection through another Laptop by
Ethernet. You can also connect the system to Internet via a LAN cable
getting an Internet connection from a router.
3. Now check on terminal if the Internet connection is active or not
by pinging to the another hosts ip, as well as pinging to Internet.
"ping google.com"
If its working then you are good to go.
4. If the Internet is up, update the system package repository indexes by using
apt-get update
5. After completion of the updation of packages. Now install GRUB-PC by using
apt-get install grub-pc
6. Now GRUB will get downloaded and installed through the Internet,
which was earlier failing to install from the LIVE USB.
7. The installation went sucessfully on my system and also detected my
windows installation and added a boot entry for it.
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