Bug#740795: problems installing debian without internet connection

[Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com>]

Hi KiBi,

I would be glad to supply more information, but dont know what the 4th 
console is. I searched online for the phrase but couldnt find any 
explanation of it. I checked the errata[1] as you suggested, but 
unfortunately it doesnt relate to me as grub isnt getting installed on 
my usb and i never get the message "Install the GRUB boot loader to the 
master boot record?". When i reach the 'Install the GRUB boot loader on 
a hard disk' page, it directly gives me the error. When i attempted to 
install lilo instead, i would like to put it, it gave me the message 
"Running "/sbin/lilo" failed with the error code "127". It is mentioned 
in errata, that "it should be possible to recover using the rescue mode 
of the installer". where can i find this rescue mode in the installer?

Jay Philips

On 03/05/2014 12:45 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> (2014-03-05):
> > Package: debian-installer
> >
> > I was installing debian from the 7.4 64-bit xfce installer and chose
> > not to setup my internet settings, but during the grub bootloader
> > installation part, I got the following error "The 'grub-pc' package
> > failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the
> > installed system will not boot." There is already a report on this
> > and it stated that it was fixed <
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672689 >. I was
> > installing from a 4gb usb.
> any chance you could switch to the 4th console to see if there are more
> accurate messages explaining what went wrong when installing grub? Maybe
> you suffered from the first item documented in errata[1] and grub failed
> to get set up on the installation medium?
>
>   1. https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/index.html#errata
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.