Bug#740795: problems installing debian without internet connection

[Jay Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com>]

Well i have good news and bad news. The good news is that i got the 
installation to work and grub installed. The bad news is that it will 
not install grub from the live xfce session, it will only install grub 
from the boot menu 'install' option.

I noticed that Alt+F4 does give useful stuff in the boot menu 'install' 
but its not there in the live session install.

I checked the boot menu under 'advanced options' there is only 'hardware 
detection tool' and 'memory diagnostic', no 'rescue mode'.

As i was trying to figure out this whole grub installation problem, i 
was tweeting my thoughts about problems i found with debian's installer. 
Please do have a look over them when you get a chance < 
https://twitter.com/jphilipz >.

Jay Philips

On 03/06/2014 01:49 AM, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> On 05-03-2014 21:28, Jay Philips wrote:
> > Hi KiBi,
> >
> > I would be glad to supply more information, but dont know what the 4th
> > console is.
>
> You can switch console by pressing Alt+Number of console, for example 
> to switch to console 4:
>
> ALT+4
>
> 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?
>
> On the installer boot screen choose "advanced options" then "Rescue 
> mode".
>
> > 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.