Re: GRUB Error on 04-12 Images

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Hi Noah,

What model machine are you trying to install on?

Can you provide the full syslog file?

Thanks,
Rick

> On Apr 14, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Noah Wolfe <n.wolfe4@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay, so I tried again with everything on default mount points, and the same error and message appear.
> 
> This appears to be some kind of problem with manual vs. automatic partitioning...
> 
> Just wanted to put this out there.
> 
> Noah
> 
> On Apr 14, 2019 7:08 PM, Noah Wolfe <n.wolfe4@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried the 04-12 images today, and manually partitioned the disk to this:
> 
> Sda2, 1mb NewWorld partition
> 
> Sda3, 1gb Ext2 partition mounted at /boot. Noatime.
> 
> Sda4, 20gb Ext4 partition mounted at /. Noatime.
> 
> Sda5, 5gb swap
> 
> Sda6, 94gb Ext4 partition mounted at /home. Noatime.
> 
> Installation goes well, then GRUB fails to install, giving the same message we've always seen.
> 
> Here's what syslog says:
> 
> Mk-hfs-bootstrap: the HFS bootstrap partition couldn't be found. Cannot continue! Exiting.
> Main-menu: cat: can't open /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=SDB/string of numbers/mountpoint: no such file or directory
> WARNING**: Configuring grub-installer failed with error code 1
> 
> I suspect it has to do with the noatime mount points, although this has never happened before. Unless, of course, this is GRUB specific.
> 
> I'll try again without them...
> 
> Thanks all,
> Noah