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Bug#740795: problems installing debian without internet connection



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.

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